XP hard drive as a slave

> Just to make sure I understand you have two HDDs on the same IDE cable. You
> have the jumpers on one of them set to Master and that is the one that your
> Vista installation is on. You have the jumpers on the other drive (the XP
> drive) set to slave.
> When you check your BIOS settings do both drives show up?
> However when you boot from the Vista drive you can not see the the XP drive
> in Windows Explorer and therefore can not get the data off it correct?
> Of course if you can see it and can reformat it you will loose all the data
> on it..
> However if you can see it to reformat it I don't understand why you cannot
> get the data off of it. What happens when you try to open it from Vista?
>
> "Oliver" <Oliver@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C52BEEEC-DD52-4503-97DE-7285B64ACC63@microsoft.com...

> >I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP hard
> > drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of
> > the
> > jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever I
> > try
> > to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't
> > allow
> > me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
> > drive erase all of the data on it?

>
>
>

> I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP hard
> drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of the
> jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever I try
> to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't allow
> me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
> drive erase all of the data on it?

> I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP hard
> drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of the
> jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever I try
> to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't allow
> me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
> drive erase all of the data on it?

>i am having a bit of a similar issue. i have a secondary drive hooked in as
>a
> slave and it will not recognize the slave since the upgrade to Vista and
> it
> says that a Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing.
>
> Scott
>
> "Oliver" wrote:
>

>> I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP
>> hard
>> drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of
>> the
>> jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever I
>> try
>> to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't
>> allow
>> me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
>> drive erase all of the data on it?

> Make sure your other drive is configured as Master and not as Cable Select.
> "Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:091CA17B-3008-4C8A-A388-9C93F185C3B3@microsoft.com...

> >i am having a bit of a similar issue. i have a secondary drive hooked in as
> >a
> > slave and it will not recognize the slave since the upgrade to Vista and
> > it
> > says that a Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > "Oliver" wrote:
> >

> >> I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP
> >> hard
> >> drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of
> >> the
> >> jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever I
> >> try
> >> to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't
> >> allow
> >> me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
> >> drive erase all of the data on it?

>
>
>

> Make sure your other drive is configured as Master and not as Cable
> Select.
> "Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:091CA17B-3008-4C8A-A388-9C93F185C3B3@microsoft.com...

>>i am having a bit of a similar issue. i have a secondary drive hooked in
>>as a
>> slave and it will not recognize the slave since the upgrade to Vista and
>> it
>> says that a Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> "Oliver" wrote:
>>

>>> I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP
>>> hard
>>> drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of
>>> the
>>> jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever
>>> I try
>>> to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't
>>> allow
>>> me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
>>> drive erase all of the data on it?

>
>

> With the jumbers on the drive just like you did with slave drive you set up.
> I am assuming that the two drives are on the same IDE cable so one must be
> set to Master and the other to Slave or both can be set to Cable Select.
> If the new drive you set to Slave is on IDE cable with a CD or DVD drive
> then make sure that the CD or DVD drive has its jumbers set to Master. Each
> device should have a draawing on it showing how to set the jumpers.
>
> "JW" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
> news:%23gJGwNArGHA.1648@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

> > Make sure your other drive is configured as Master and not as Cable
> > Select.
> > "Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:091CA17B-3008-4C8A-A388-9C93F185C3B3@microsoft.com...

> >>i am having a bit of a similar issue. i have a secondary drive hooked in
> >>as a
> >> slave and it will not recognize the slave since the upgrade to Vista and
> >> it
> >> says that a Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing.
> >>
> >> Scott
> >>
> >> "Oliver" wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an XP
> >>> hard
> >>> drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all of
> >>> the
> >>> jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but whenever
> >>> I try
> >>> to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and won't
> >>> allow
> >>> me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting the
> >>> drive erase all of the data on it?

> >
> >

>
>
>

> actually i have a SATA drive connected as a slave to the back of my dell
> dimension 8400.
>
> "JW" wrote:
>

>> With the jumbers on the drive just like you did with slave drive you set
>> up.
>> I am assuming that the two drives are on the same IDE cable so one must
>> be
>> set to Master and the other to Slave or both can be set to Cable Select.
>> If the new drive you set to Slave is on IDE cable with a CD or DVD drive
>> then make sure that the CD or DVD drive has its jumbers set to Master.
>> Each
>> device should have a draawing on it showing how to set the jumpers.
>>
>> "JW" <nospam@no.spam> wrote in message
>> news:%23gJGwNArGHA.1648@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> > Make sure your other drive is configured as Master and not as Cable
>> > Select.
>> > "Scott" <Scott@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:091CA17B-3008-4C8A-A388-9C93F185C3B3@microsoft.com...
>> >>i am having a bit of a similar issue. i have a secondary drive hooked
>> >>in
>> >>as a
>> >> slave and it will not recognize the slave since the upgrade to Vista
>> >> and
>> >> it
>> >> says that a Mass Storage Controller Driver is missing.
>> >>
>> >> Scott
>> >>
>> >> "Oliver" wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I have vista installed on the master drive. I'm trying to set up an
>> >>> XP
>> >>> hard
>> >>> drive as a slave so that I can salvage documents from it. I have all
>> >>> of
>> >>> the
>> >>> jumper seetings set up the way that the hard drives direct but
>> >>> whenever
>> >>> I try
>> >>> to access the XP hard drive it asks me if I want to format it and
>> >>> won't
>> >>> allow
>> >>> me access to the files. Is there anything I can do. Would formatting
>> >>> the
>> >>> drive erase all of the data on it?
>> >
>> >

>>
>>
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