I have this hard drive that I had on a computer with windows 98. My computer is not working anymore so I bought a hard drive enclosure to get the files from this hard drive but my xp can not even read it. I connected it to the usb as an external drive but it does not even show on my computer. The other hard drives I have work perfectly with the enclosure. I don't want to lose the files I have on this hd.. I right clicked on my computer, went to manage and to disk management and I see the hard drive in my computer (C) I also see a flash memory (L) and I see the hard drive I have these important files on, but it does not have a drive letter, but it says HEALTHY (ACTIVE) just like the other ones. I does not give me an option to open it or nothing else just to format, but this is something I don't want to do.. Can somebody please help.
Thanks
2007-03-02 15:12:52 · 6 answers · asked by artness98 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
The issue is the other hard drive has an OS on it (windows 98) so it not being picked up as storage.
1: you can see if your computer will let you boot from the USB in the BIOS (doubtful unless it's a very new computer)
2nd option: remove your hard drive...put in the old one boot up, save the files you want to a USB, remove put back in your XP drive...hook the old win98 and format for storage.
2007-03-02 15:57:51 · answer #1 · answered by Gerry Mac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First off, make sure the drive is powered on before you connect it to the USB.
It doesn't matter what the jumper settings are when a HDD is connected via USB, so don't worry about that,
Try this:
Reboot the computer, power up and then connect the HDD.
Once connected right-click on "My Computer" and select Manage from the menu.
Click "Disk Management" from the list of items on the left side of the screen.
On the lower half of the right side of the window, you should see all the drives connected to the computer. In this area drives are given numeric designations, so the drive you want should be the highest number and lowest on the list, and should be described as
Disk 2
Basic
40.0 GB
Online
or something similar. Anyway, right-click on that description and see if "enable" "activate" "mount" or a similar option is listed and select it.
This sometimes works.
2007-03-02 16:03:03 · answer #2 · answered by Aaron Patton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, can you describe a little more about your first computer that have Windows 98. How do you know that it not working?
Could it be possible that the harddrive you connecting as external is these problem?
I have bad experiences about connecting harddrive as external. Don't ask because it paranoia.
2007-03-02 15:57:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 07:25:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, it should read FAT format with no problem....
Do you have the drive pinned as MASTER?
2007-03-02 15:39:21 · answer #5 · answered by mrresearchman 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-03-02 15:38:49 · answer #6 · answered by Hokiefire 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋