Hi,
This is really strange and let's see if anyone here can crack this - I'm going mad!
Had a system with XP installed. I had one hard drive, split to two partitions - C was the XP partition in NTFS, D was FAT32 with all kind of stuff (this was because C used to be Win98SE and was formatted and installed with XP.
In order to expand memory space I bought a 40 Giga HD.
I wanted to switch the two HD and make the new one the C drive with XP and everything else on it, and then combine the old C and D partitions to one partition D.
So I started the operation. For some reason the boot off the CD didn't work until I set the new HD as master WITHOUT it being formatted to either FAT32 OR NTFS... Only after hours of trying to format it (within XP and within floppy's Win98 DOS mode), I managed to boot and start the whole process after I used FDISK to delete the partitions on the new hard drive.
Why this happened is a mystery to me and if you can tell me why - I'd be happy. But this is not yet the problem I have now...
So I installed XP on the new HD, making it drive C and setting it as a master in the IDE cable, and the old drive with the two partitions as D and a slave.
The BIOS DOES recognize both HDs.
But when I get into XP, Windows Explorer does not show the old HD! I have rebooted many times - BIOS shows the new HD, XP doesn't.
I will point out that:
1. The new HD is an UDMA 100 but at the moment I use a regular 20-wire IDE cable as I haven't gotten the 40-wire IDE cable essential for the UDMA to work.
2. The slave HD has NTFS in the first partition and FAT32 in its second partition.
3. As far as I can see, there are no other anomalies that should screw this up - i.e. enough RAM, the XP is the standard corporate version of the XP Professional, the old drive seems to work fine if I remove the new HD and make the old one master and set it's first partition to being the active partition.
Can anyone tell me how to make sure XP shows the old drive in Windows Explorer?!
This is really strange and let's see if anyone here can crack this - I'm going mad!
Had a system with XP installed. I had one hard drive, split to two partitions - C was the XP partition in NTFS, D was FAT32 with all kind of stuff (this was because C used to be Win98SE and was formatted and installed with XP.
In order to expand memory space I bought a 40 Giga HD.
I wanted to switch the two HD and make the new one the C drive with XP and everything else on it, and then combine the old C and D partitions to one partition D.
So I started the operation. For some reason the boot off the CD didn't work until I set the new HD as master WITHOUT it being formatted to either FAT32 OR NTFS... Only after hours of trying to format it (within XP and within floppy's Win98 DOS mode), I managed to boot and start the whole process after I used FDISK to delete the partitions on the new hard drive.
Why this happened is a mystery to me and if you can tell me why - I'd be happy. But this is not yet the problem I have now...
So I installed XP on the new HD, making it drive C and setting it as a master in the IDE cable, and the old drive with the two partitions as D and a slave.
The BIOS DOES recognize both HDs.
But when I get into XP, Windows Explorer does not show the old HD! I have rebooted many times - BIOS shows the new HD, XP doesn't.
I will point out that:
1. The new HD is an UDMA 100 but at the moment I use a regular 20-wire IDE cable as I haven't gotten the 40-wire IDE cable essential for the UDMA to work.
2. The slave HD has NTFS in the first partition and FAT32 in its second partition.
3. As far as I can see, there are no other anomalies that should screw this up - i.e. enough RAM, the XP is the standard corporate version of the XP Professional, the old drive seems to work fine if I remove the new HD and make the old one master and set it's first partition to being the active partition.
Can anyone tell me how to make sure XP shows the old drive in Windows Explorer?!