Re: can't read hd in enclosure

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, anon <[email protected]> wrote:-

>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.

Is there any reason that you can't do this with the WinXP computer? If
there isn't, and assuming the WinXP system isn't one of those SATA-only
systems[0], it'll be a lot quicker than using an external USB enclosure.

While it's not as nice as just plugging in and copying, it's not going
to be that much slower. The main delay is probably going to be in
shutting down and restarting after inserting and removing the drive. The
actual transfers should be as fast, if not faster than using a USB
connection.

>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've yet to have to reformat a drive to make WinXP read from it, so
can't see why you'd need to.


[0] And I _think_ I've only ever seen one of those. That was a Dell
system that my brother was stupid enough to buy, although I couldn't say
which one, that came with a SATA HD and IDE DVDRW. When I tried top get
it to see a second IDE HD, it failed completely. Altering the jumper
settings didn't make any difference, and neither did any of the BIOS
settings. The drive itself is perfectly okay, having tested it on
another IDE-only system.

Regards,
  David Bolt

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