copying music files from one hard drive to another

[unofire]

I currently have a hard drive with 6 gb of mp3s. I have also built a system for my son who is off to college and wants to have these files transferred to the new hard drive. Both drives already have win 98 on them. Is there anyway that I can transfer these files using the IDE cable route? If so what is the best way. I had tried to make the new disk the primary and the 'music' hard drive as the slave(no CD ROM). However, the bios detected both but only showed the new drive in explorer. How do i access the music drive or am I missing somthing or is it just easier to burm on to cds? Can anyone steer me in the right direction.

Many thanks

Unofire

 

[wolluf]

You should see both - try reversing them (so music disk is master and new disk slave), or putting one on each IDE channel (but make the music master - ie, boots from it). Obviously this should be in the machine that the music drive normally lives in.

PS. If still no good, try booting from 98 boot floppy (with both hard drives connected). If you can see both from the dos prompt, you could copy them from there (though I can't remember how well 98 dos copes with long filenames).

 

[edfair]

With the music drive in your system check with fdisk to see what kind of partition you have. Sounds like you may have a drive overlay installed. Or some other partition problem.

Are both machines on the same version of 98?

Probable best way would be to move the music to sec master on the new system as you tried. But there are cable issues possibly involved. If the new system has 80 conductor cable you could make the mp3 drive cable select an plug it as slave and change the boot disk to cable select and plug as master.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[norty303]

If both machines have net cards you could just direct cable them and setup small network. You might have to wait a while but think of the time you could take up trying to go the IDE route.