Help! Can't read hard drive!

[saiello]

Hi All! I have what I think is a common problem but have not yet found a solution. I have added second hard drive that has critical data on it from another computer to my new computer. I installed XP on a FAT32 formatted boot drive on the new computer and the second drive was picked up, but I cannot view the data on the second drive i.e. it is not visible in Explorer. In Device Manager the drive is there and in Computer management it also shows up but is displayed as 'unallocated'. The boot drive was originally formatted as FAT32 so I converted it to NTFS using Partition Magic but this still doesn't solve the problem. What's gone wrong? How can I get access to the data on the second drive? Any help would be gratefully appreciated!

Thanks.

 

[pweegar]

Did you set up your primary boot drive as the master and the new drive as a slave???

 

[cdogg]

What did the "second hard drive" have on it before? What file format was it formatted in, NTFS? If so, then that might be your problem - missing permission to access drive. It doesn't matter what the boot drive is using.


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[wolluf]

Was Goback installed on old drive?

Did you use overlay software to partition the old drive originally (ie, software provided by drive manufacturer - usually used to overcome bios deficiences regarding support of large drives)?

What filestore is old drive? Can you access it from win98 boot floppy if its fat32 - or if ntfs, what does fdisk (enquiry option) say about it?