xp doesn't recognize second partition

[xipetotec19]

I recently purchased an XP machine and would like to transfer data from my old win98 machine onto the new one. I moved the harddrive to the new machine and set it up as a slave. The problem is, on the 98 machine, the drive was partitioned in half. It is an 80 gig harddrive, which 98 split into two smaller drives (C: and D. Once installed on the new machine, it only recognizes one partition (the one that had been C. How can I make the new machine see the second partition? My 80 gig harddrive appears at the moment to be a 35 gig drive... containing only half of my data.

Please help.

 

[G0AOZ]

Assuming the second partition was perfectly readable in your WIN 98 machine, then go to XP's Disk Management and see if it shows up there. I suspect you may need to manually allocate a drive letter to it.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[xipetotec19]

I checked Disk Management, it only sees the one partition. I went under change drive letter and tried to add one, but it wanted me to choose an empty NTFS folder. The old drive is FAT32, so that seem wrong. It still doesn't see my data.

 

[xipetotec19]

nevermind, figured it out

 

[G0AOZ]

Win XP will see FAT16 and FAT32 partitions as well as NTFS ones.

Glad you figured it out! Please kindly give a brief outline of how you solved it as it may help other forum members with a similar problem.

ROGER - G0AOZ.