Re: can't read hd in enclosure

"jg" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> On 3/6/2006 4:04 PM anon scribbled:
>
>> "Porpoise" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> "anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> There is the problem - my enclosure hd did not show up in the explorer 
>>>> so
>>>> there was nothing to click on.
>>>>
>>> At the risk of having missed something earlier in the thread, it sounds 
>>> to
>>> me like the drive hasn't actually yet been partitioned and formatted -
>>> until it's been partitioned and formatted, there won't be anything to 
>>> see
>>> in Explorer. Did you partition it and format it when you got it home 
>>> from
>>> the shop? They usually come with instructions (when supplied in retail
>>> packages) relating to how to make them usable. The don't usually come
>>> pre-partitioned and formatted, as they don't know what system you are
>>> going to be using.
>>
>> **
>> Actually, the drive was temporarily removed from an actively running 
>> win98se
>> computer.
>>
>> AFAIK the drive satisfied all the requirements required for it to be read 
>> by
>> another computer - in fact, I had installed it as a slave in another
>> computer and it WAS readable. Reset the jumpers and it booted to win 
>> 98se.
>>
>> All the suggestions in this thread seem to come down to the conclusion 
>> that
>> the drive needs to be reformatted by the winxp computer to be read - that 
>> is
>> counterproductive as the reason for wanting to read it in the first place 
>> is
>> that I want to copy files from it to the winxp computer (reformatting
>> obviously is not the answer.)
>>
>>
> I was curious about the advice to reformat.  But whats keeping you from
> just going to where the HD works and copy the data to a floppy or CD?
> The HD problem doesn't sound like its worth the trouble - could be
> anywhere in this mix -fat vs. ntfs, bios, HD manufacturer/hardware
> failure, XP -
> sheesh...

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Actually, I have thousands of files (many,many CDs) that I want to transfer.

I have already copied from some of the CDs, but thought that direct transfer 
would be faster and easier (???) than the CDs. Little did I know how hard it 
would be to implement.
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> p.s. by /enclosure/ do you mean an internal drive?

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No that is an external drive connected via a USB cable.

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