Old Win98 (Fat32) HDD thrown into an new XP (NTFS) machine.... - Virtual Dr Forums-Computer Tech Support

m@yles · #1 June 12th, 2003, 08:32 AM

Hi all,

My friend has a New 1.7 Ghz P4 and wants data off of his Old HDD (which is only a HDD and not attached to anthing else, old machine is also disposed).

As i said i would help him get the data off the old HDD, i trying to brainstorm ideas on achiving this....

Here's the info:

Winxp Home Sp1.
P4 1.7,
512 Mb RDram pc800
Gigabyte ATX 8TX-c mobo
20 Gig HDD, NTFS
CD-r/rw Samsung
Cr-rom Toshiba

and...

Maxtor HDD 20gig (on its own), Fat32
Has Win98 on there.(and when it was in there it was the only bootable drive..)

What are my options in putting the Old HDD into the new system to remove data files onto the new system?

How and could these points hinder me achiving this task?
- NTFS mixed with a Fat32drive on Win XP....
- Havving 2 O/S's on 2 Hard disk....
- Slave / Master Settings....

Is there anything else i need to look out for?

What ever happends, there's a beer in it for me apparently...

Please help and thanks in advance!

**DrMDJ** · #2 June 12th, 2003, 09:25 AM

We answer the question and you get the beer???? Hmmm.

Shouldn't be a problem. There's no issue mixing fat32 and ntfs drives under XP, nor will it be an issue that the fat32 drive has an OS on it. Simply connect the Fat32 drive as a slave to the existing drive. XP should pick it right up and the files can be copied.

One "possible" issue... It is possible that after hooking up the fat32 drive and booting in to XP it turns out that the drive is seen as unpartitioned/unformatted and/or the drive (and its files) are not accessible (error messages). If this happens then it is because of an incompatability in the bioses between the two systems, specifically differences in the way physical/logical translation is handled for the geometry of hard drives. If this happens then you got a problem. My guess is though that it will not. The only way to know is to try it.

ProfessorU · #3 June 12th, 2003, 09:32 AM

This won't be tough. Make the two HDs masters, with your XP drive on IDE0 and the 98 drive on IDE1. Optical drives get to be slaves. Now BIOS might need a keypress or two, just follow any prompts if it's not autodetected. You'll boot to XP and the D: drive will be the drive formerly known as Windows 98. Explorer has no problems mixing file systems. If you're going to use the drive there permanently you should consider formatting it to NTFS.

NorthernBloke · #4 June 12th, 2003, 09:42 AM

depending on the type of hard drive, you may need to set the SCSI ID No,s or the slave / master switches.

Plug in, switch on, tamper...

NBloke.

**photolady** · #5 June 12th, 2003, 10:26 AM

What's the difference in this set up and the one I discussed in another thread about: win98 machine seeing XP harddrive?

I have a computer with win98 as the master drive, I have a 12gb that has NTFS XP Pro on it, and yesterday, I set this up this way Main drive (win98 master) with 12gb NTFS xp as slave. it works and I've successfully copied files from it.
And I can't see any problems at all with what you want to do if all you're going to do is slave the 98 to xp, just slave it to the Master driver on the same cable on IDE0.

Also, I had asked a question regarding this very thing when I was going to slave my win98 to my new computer. I'll see if I can find the thread.

EDIT: Okay, I found my question regarding this very subject, here it is:
http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...ight=photolady

**DrMDJ** · #6 June 12th, 2003, 10:54 AM

A minor point (doesn't apply here since the boot os is XP in this case), but...:

Quote:

I have a computer with win98 as the master drive, I have a 12gb that has NTFS XP Pro on it, and yesterday, I set this up this way Main drive (win98 master) with 12gb NTFS xp as slave. it works and I've successfully copied files from it.

If the boot OS was win98 and the drive in question was NTFS ya couldn't copy any files off it from win98. Win98 wouldn't even see, let alone understand the file system on, an NTFS formatted drive.

**photolady** · #7 June 12th, 2003, 07:38 PM

Sorry, I should have said, I burned files from the D: and E: drive that has xp pro on it, onto cd's. But the computer does see that drive. on my post in that other thread, DrM the one you were helping me with. "may be a silly question" that is what I have. Win98 Master, XP Pro slave.