Hi all,
First of all apologies if this has been covered before, I have been searching the internet for the last 24 hours trying to find a solution and to be honest there does not seem to be a simple answer as there are so many difference scenarios I cant find one that matches mine
First of all, I built my new PC a couple of days back installed vista ultimate 64 which is all good. The new HD is attached to the mother board via a SATA connection. I removed my old XP drive from the old PC and installed it to the new system also however as its quite old I have had to use the IDE connection on the mother board and set the jumpers to slave. I want to be able to access all my old music, photos etc.
Now Vista picks up the old XP drive through “computer” but when I try to access it, it sates I need to reformat the drive which of course I totally want to avoid!
I made sure the (ribbon type) IDE cable is using the correct (grey) slave connection and also made sure the jumper is set to slave. Apparently there is no need to set anything else to master as I’m using SATA connections. The old drive was also previously operational prior to the new build so I know there are no issues there.
Maybe because I’m using SATA for the other HD and DVD-ROM I can set the OLD HD to master?????
Anyone know a fix for this, or how I can access this drive it would be greatly appreciated!!
Many thanks in advance! :D
First of all apologies if this has been covered before, I have been searching the internet for the last 24 hours trying to find a solution and to be honest there does not seem to be a simple answer as there are so many difference scenarios I cant find one that matches mine
First of all, I built my new PC a couple of days back installed vista ultimate 64 which is all good. The new HD is attached to the mother board via a SATA connection. I removed my old XP drive from the old PC and installed it to the new system also however as its quite old I have had to use the IDE connection on the mother board and set the jumpers to slave. I want to be able to access all my old music, photos etc.
Now Vista picks up the old XP drive through “computer” but when I try to access it, it sates I need to reformat the drive which of course I totally want to avoid!
I made sure the (ribbon type) IDE cable is using the correct (grey) slave connection and also made sure the jumper is set to slave. Apparently there is no need to set anything else to master as I’m using SATA connections. The old drive was also previously operational prior to the new build so I know there are no issues there.
Maybe because I’m using SATA for the other HD and DVD-ROM I can set the OLD HD to master?????
Anyone know a fix for this, or how I can access this drive it would be greatly appreciated!!
Many thanks in advance! :D