Hard Drive Won't Mount

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Nathan Widmyer

I have a computer I'm trying to fix for someone. They had Windows 98
but with a lot of personal files. Rather than trying to have her think
of everything she needs, I just got a new hard drive and I installed
Windows XP on that. I put the old Windows 98 hard drive in there. The
drive is listed correctly and healthy in the Disk Management. When I
right click on the partition to give it a drive letter, all options
except "Delete Partition..." and "Help" are dimmed. What can I do to
fix it?

I can change the disk configuration and boot Windows 98 so I know the
drive is okay.

Can anyone CC me at (e-mail address removed) (Intentional
obfuscation to bat off spammers) because I'll receive that email faster
than finding a reply in the newsgroup. I gotta go back tomorrow and fix
this because I'm all out of ideas.

Any help will be very much appreciated, thanks, Nate.
 
Nathan, how did you connect it. As slave or master on the secondary IDE
channel? Change jumper
configurations on the drive?
 
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