Re: can't read hd in enclosure
"Porpoise" <[email protected]>
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"anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > "Porpoise" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> "anon" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... > > ** > 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.) If it's already formatted and it's a M$ format, then it should be readable from XP so I don't know what the problem could be in this instance. Have you tried using a Knoppix bootable CD on the host system and using that to copy the files? Or maybe it's something to do with the interface?!?