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Getting stuff from old HD with new rig?

  • 12-03-2004 11:40am
    #1
    Booster
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    I got a new rig with XP installed, it has a SATA HD. The old 20 gig HD has 98se, I've tons music and porn on it. I heard you can attach a HD with fat32 and XP will read it. I've tried everything, messing with the bios, different ide cables and ports but it doesn't seem to recognise its there.

    Anyone know what the deal is with this?


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  • #2
    woolymammoth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭woolymammoth


    its most likely just a configuration thing.. XP will read FAT32, its a windows file
    system. with your SATA on primary master, and your 20gig on primary slave, set the
    jumper on the back of the 20gig to slave, and you can leave it off the SATA, if its
    there in the first place. boot the pc, go into the bios setup and make sure the bios
    sees both hard drives. then boot into XP and you should have both drives showing
    in windows explorer..

    i'm open to correction on this one, or a better explanation :p

    hope it helps..


  • #3
    Booster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 44 ✭Booster


    Right, I'm getting somewhere. It seems only to recognise it as a primary master in the bios, windows then installed the drivers automaticly and asked to reboot. I did this but the drive is still not showing up. It's there in device manager but not in windows.


  • #4
    woolymammoth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭woolymammoth


    which drive have you connected as Primary Master and which as Primary Slave?

    as in here, the top drive, or the one at the end of the cable, is the Master.
    The other is the slave. the jumpers then need to be set accordingly. [pic]
    It should say on the drive which connection is master, which is slave..

    with your XP drive on Primary Master, don't bother with a jumper.

    with your 20gig on Primary Slave, set the jumper on slave.

    check the BIOS to make sure the PC sees them in that order, and boot into
    windows XP.. it should see them both..


  • #5
    netman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭netman


    Look in your BIOS for SATA/PATA configuration.

    There are numerous ways it can be set up. For legacy systems, you can set up SATA drives as IDE drives (eg. Primary Master and Secondary Master) and leave IDE drives as slaves, connected to the parallel-ATA connectors. You might be trying to run both drives as masters and the PATA drive isn't getting recognised.

    Either that or you have PATA disabled in BIOS.

    I'm assuming you connected the drives and power cables etc :)

    There are no issues with XP and FAT32 support.


  • #6
    Big Chief
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,754 ✭✭✭Big Chief


    right click my computer on desktop-->manage---> click on disk management

    what does it say on there?


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  • #7
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    Man, I think the HD has died now.:o New machine aint recognising it now at all and it wont boot in the old machine. *Sobs*


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