Win 95 to NTFS xfer???

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I have an older hard drive that doesn't want to be installed as a slave
drive, I need info off it, I did the jumper and have it on the right part of
the ribbon, when I boot up I get to the windows desktop then it crashes,
my question is:
Can I make it the primary (it still has Win 95 on it) then transfer files
to my existing hard drive (temporarily a slave) with NTFS, will the files be
read that way, with a mismatched FAT?
Hope I explained it right.
Thanks much
R. Hamm
 
No. Windows 95 does not know how to read/write to NTFS drives. Any chance
you can boot of this drive and convert it to fat32 or archive things to
another type of media (e.g. CDR/CDRW)
 
R. Hamm said:
I have an older hard drive that doesn't want to be installed as a slave
drive, I need info off it, I did the jumper and have it on the right part of
the ribbon, when I boot up I get to the windows desktop then it crashes,
my question is:
Can I make it the primary (it still has Win 95 on it) then transfer files
to my existing hard drive (temporarily a slave) with NTFS, will the files be
read that way, with a mismatched FAT?
Hope I explained it right.
Thanks much
R. Hamm
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Have you tried installing the old disk as a secondary master disk?

If you cannot do this then the following might work. As Neo
explained, you Win95 will not recognise NTFS. To resolve
your problem you can do this:

- Borrow or buy a small hard disk (2 GBytes). They are cheap.
- Install your Win95 disk as a master and the borrowed disk as a slave.
- Transfer your data to the borrowed disk.
- Restore your Win2000 disk as a master.
- Boot into Win2000
- Copy your data from the borrowed disk.

This might be a good opportunity to reconsider your backup
strategy. To have important files stored in just one location
is asking for trouble.
 
I have an older hard drive that doesn't want to be installed as a slave
drive, I need info off it, I did the jumper and have it on the right part of
the ribbon, when I boot up I get to the windows desktop then it crashes,
my question is:
Can I make it the primary (it still has Win 95 on it) then transfer files
to my existing hard drive (temporarily a slave) with NTFS, will the files be
read that way, with a mismatched FAT?
Hope I explained it right.
Thanks much
R. Hamm
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First, the only way 2k will crash when adding a new drive is either the
drive has an electrical problem or if a core component of 2k is trying
to execute something on the new (old) drive. I sugest putting the drive
on a networked computer running Win98 or 95 and copy over the network.
Or maybe while on an older OS machine you can delete all the stuff you
don't need on the NTFS system and try again.
 
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