Can't access Win98 secondary drive on XP

[TwoLegs]

I am trying to mount a Windows98 system drive as a secondary drive on a newly built WindowsXP machine. I need to transfer the data to the new system.

The BIOS sees the drive and so does WinXP. However, WinXP won't assign it a drive letter and I can't assign one.

WinXP reports both drives as primary drives. Fdisk shows the Win98 drive partition as active.

I've installed the Win98 drive on an old Dell Optiplex GX50 so I could transfer the files via USB drive or network. The Win98 system on the drive is installing drivers at the rate of maybe one driver per HOUR!

Anyone have some advice?

mjv

 

[TwoLegs]

I found the answer late yesterday...
Friggin' GoBack. There always was something about that program that bugged me. I've seen it on mostly Gateways and it always seems to make those systems seem sluggish, espcially on start up.

Anyway it took about 4 hours on a 10 Gig drive, but GB is disabled. The drive mounts on the XP box and fires up just dandy. I'm transferring data right now.

mjv

 

[kestrel1]

Yet another Symantec product that slows machines down. Don't you just hate it.

 

[TwoLegs]

Even more now than before!

Back in the olden days of DOS 3.x I thought the Norton Utilities was the bomb. But ever since the Symantec moniker came around...

mjv

 

[kestrel1]

Seems that everything Symantec touch turns to mush & slows things down. They even buy out companies that make good products, so that they have no competition (Powerquest for example)