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How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
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How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Posted by alyxx
(4 messages posted)
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
If you think education's expensive, try ignorance.
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re: How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 2:37 pm
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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re: How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Posted by alyxx
(4 messages posted)
Hi, Mike,
This looks awesome. Hard to believe it's freeware. I'm going to download and
try it out tonight, and I'll post back with results. Thank you SO much for your
help.
alyxx
If you think education's expensive, try ignorance.
On Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 2:37 pm, Mike wrote:
>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/
>
>
>
>
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re: How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Yep. Good little program for recovering data off of NTFS format drives for XP
systems. I have the standard Windows ME boot diskette modified to include an option
of loading the NTFS reader driver so that I can access NTFS drives from a DOS prompt.
The Windows ME diskette will work allowing access to both CD-Rom drives and XP's
drives on an XP system when nothing else will.
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re: How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Posted by alyxx
(4 messages posted)
Mike, Thank you SO much for the link to that program. First time in two weeks
I've been able to access the data. Kind of a long story, but the bottom line is -
I had pretty much despaired of ever seeing anything on the drive again. You saved
my sanity! Only wish I could return the favor in some way. Email me if you can think
of anything. That's a great program - easy to use AND free? Unbelievable.
Jack, this modified Me startup disk sounds like a good idea. Win XP won't recognize
my cd drive and I need to do a repair/reinstall. What files would I need to add
to the WinMe startup disk to make this happen? Thanks for your help
Alyxx
If you think education's expensive, try ignorance.
On Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 11:18 pm, Jack Gulley wrote:
> Yep. Good little program for recovering data off of NTFS format drives for XP
>systems. I have the standard Windows ME boot diskette modified to include an option
>of loading the NTFS reader driver so that I can access NTFS drives from a DOS prompt.
>The Windows ME diskette will work allowing access to both CD-Rom drives and XP's
>drives on an XP system when nothing else will.
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re: How to make Me recognize a second hard drive
Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 10:39 am
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Go to NTFS
DOS reader and download the NTFSDOS reader ZIP file. It has instructions on using.
But basically you just copy the NTFSDOS.exe file to a copy of the Windows ME startup
diskette. Then from the A:\ prompt run the NTFSDOS program and it will check for
the presence of NTFS volumes and if one is found assign drive letter(s) and provide
read-only support of those drives.
I have also modifed the Autoexec.bat (and others) on my Windows Startup diskette
to give additional options that include one loading with the NTFSDOS reader and an
option for skipping the non-IDE CD-Rom drivers so it boots faster when only using
IDE attached CD-Rom drives. And options for loading SmartDRV so FAT32 disk operations
run faster.
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