re: How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(31 messages posted)
Hi.
Trying to access an NTSF (XP) format drive from 9X (Windows Me) Fat 32 format
drive . Check this out.
http://diskinternals.com/products/ntfs-reader/
On Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 12:57 pm, alyxx wrote:
>Hi. Can someone please help? I'm running Windows Me and am trying to retrieve
>data off a Western Digital Caviar hard drive that was on an XP computer. (The HDD
>on the WinMe pc is also a WDC) The BIOS knows the second HDD is present, as a slave
>drive, and identifies it correctly. But no new drive appears in Windows Me under
>My Computer.
>
>The Windows Me Device Manager shows the new drive, but under Properties, there's
>no letter associated with it. I tried to assign one, but you can only do that to
>one that's "Removable", which I inferred to mean a CD-type drive. DM reports that
>the drive is functioning normally.
>
>The drive has the XP operating system on it, but I'm not using it - I just want
>to rescue the data. How can I get the drive to appear in Windows Me "My Computer"?
> Thanks for your help.
>
>Alyxx
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