Hard Drive Problem

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Janie Morris

I have a hard drive with Windows 98 on it that does work. I put it in my
Windows XP machine here. It sees it in Disk Management but when I try and
assign it a drive letter or anything by right-clicking, everything but
"Delete Partition" and "Help" is dimmed. How can I use this drive in this
XP machine? Windows XP reads everything about the drive perfectly fine.
 
Hello Janie,
What are you tring to accomplish, use this as a secondary
drive? Have you gone to explorer and looked at the files
on the drive? Are you getting an error when trying to
explorer this drive? If so you are going to have to do the
following: go to
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;308421
This will explain how to take ownership of a drive.

PS: If you want to do it to the entire drive right click
the drive letter instead of folders.
 
This is me again. I'm trying to mount the old hard drive
in Windows XP so I can copy over files. There's too many
files spread out too far to do it at once. It's cheaper
to just get a new drive and use this one as a secondary
drive.
 
I was doing some searching and ran across Knowledge Base article 300415
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];300415) and went
through it and when I ran "detail partition" when the volume is selected, it
says this:

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 1
Type : 44
Hidden: Yes
Active: Yes

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -----
---
* Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 19 GB Healthy

I checked the drive C: and it is marked as not hidden. Is this hidden flag
blocking me from mounting it as a drive? I tried searching through the kb
article to remove it but nothing showed up
 
Janie, try using the Win98 disk as boot and system disk. See if it
works. If yes connect the WinXP as
secondary master or slave. That could be a work around.
Janie Morris said:
I was doing some searching and ran across Knowledge Base article 300415
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];300415) and went
through it and when I ran "detail partition" when the volume is selected, it
says this:

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 1
Type : 44
Hidden: Yes
Active: Yes

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --- --
---
* Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 19 GB Healthy

I checked the drive C: and it is marked as not hidden. Is this hidden flag
blocking me from mounting it as a drive? I tried searching through the kb
article to remove it but nothing showed up

Janie Morris said:
This is me again. I'm trying to mount the old hard drive
in Windows XP so I can copy over files. There's too many
files spread out too far to do it at once. It's cheaper
to just get a new drive and use this one as a secondary
drive.
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I have a hard drive with Windows 98 on it that does work. I put it in my
Windows XP machine here. It sees it in Disk Management but when I try and
assign it a drive letter or anything by right-clicking, everything but
"Delete Partition" and "Help" is dimmed. How can I use this drive in this
XP machine? Windows XP reads everything about the drive perfectly
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fine.

MSDOS will only boot from the C: drive. This is written into the MBR.
The route that you are taking to do this will not work. XP is NT
based
and W98 is MSDOS based.
 
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