installing hard drive as secondary master

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I have it set as secondary master and the BIOS picks it
up and recognises its size, etc., but the icon, for the
drive, that I am assuming should just appear in My
Computer, isn't appearing.

the drive is from my laptop, which was running XP, I was
hoping to connect it to a desktop and move files off it.
the desktop it is connected to is running 98, should this
make a diff w/ NTFS Vs. FAT32 [probably] issues? would I
have better luck connecting it to a desktop running XP?

thanks.
 
RJG said:
I have it set as secondary master and the BIOS picks it
up and recognises its size, etc., but the icon, for the
drive, that I am assuming should just appear in My
Computer, isn't appearing.

the drive is from my laptop, which was running XP, I was
hoping to connect it to a desktop and move files off it.
the desktop it is connected to is running 98, should this
make a diff w/ NTFS Vs. FAT32 [probably] issues? would I
have better luck connecting it to a desktop running XP?

thanks.
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Yes. A computer running Windows 98 will not see a drive that is formatted
with NTFS. Try connecting it to a desktop that is running Win XP.
 
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