Re: Slave Hard-Drive probs
- From: Perplexed <Perplexed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 12:47:05 -0700
Thanks Anna, my post was more of an enquiry than a problem and you are right
I did envisage that when I set up my old hardrive as a slave drive that I
would be able to access it through my desktop but it is not a top priority
and I can live with the way it is set up at the moment. Looking back on
hindsight now it was maybe a ridiculous expectation but on the positive side
I have learned another skill and have hours of more skills to be learned
negotiating my way round my old hard drive in it's present format.
"Anna" wrote:
> "Perplexed" <Perplexed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Have just taken Hard-Drive from old PC with XP Home on it and fitted it in
> > new PC with XP Pro on it. XP Pro has been set as Master and old XP Home
> > as
> > Slave. Old XP Home shows up as F Drive on new system.
> >
> > I may sound a bit ignorant or naive here but the expectation I had on
> > doing
> > this was that when I clicked on to the F Drive my old XP Home GUI would
> > automatically appear on my monitor but alas this does not happen.
> >
> > Is there something simple that I am overlooking or have my expectations
> > been
> > wide of the mark.
> >
> > Also having difficulty finding all my previous files and folders from old
> > XP
> > Home system, I know they are there as I just ran an anti-virus check on F
> > Drive and seen them but trying to find through the F drive explorer is
> > proving a bit tiresome.
> >
> > Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for any advice given.
>
>
> Perplexed:
> 1. With your "old" drive connected to your XP machine as Slave and with the
> hard drive in that machine connected as Primary Master, you will, of course,
> boot to the PM drive, which I'm sure you understand.
>
> 2. Under those circumstances, there should be no problem in your accessing
> the "old" drive (that's now connected as a Slave) in terms of moving,
> copying, saving, etc. files.
>
> 3. "Clicking" on that "old" drive, now designated as your F: drive, will
> *not* cause that drive to boot. It will not "automatically appear on (your)
> monitor". I think you're probably referring to the possibility of that drive
> booting to a Desktop. But it *can't* at this point. All you can do while
> that drive is connected as Slave after booting up with your "new" drive is
> access the contents of that F: drive, as noted in 2. above.
>
> 4. If you want that "old" drive to boot (I *think* that's what you want,
> no?), you will have to disconnect the "new" drive and boot to the "old"
> drive. If that *is* what you want, it probably would be best if after
> disconnecting the "new" drive, that you connect the "old" one as Primary
> Master. It's possible it may boot from the Slave position (after
> disconnecting the current PM) but it may not.
>
> 5. But it's possible, even likely, that the "old" drive will not boot
> because you have removed that drive from a completely different (I assume)
> system and installed it in this *new* system. There's a way to get around
> this, but it gets a bit complicated and I'm not entirely sure you're even
> interested in booting to your old drive in this new system But if you are,
> let us know.
> Anna
>
>
>
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