I made a topic a few months ago, but now I have come back with more knowledge! Ihave my old hard drive, with tonnes of info on unrealesed games and other cool stuff. I can't hook it up to my current computer because, my new one uses Serial ATA and the old hard drive is IDE. I however, have an IDE external hard drive enclosure. I am worried that since my old hard drive was on windows 2000 and my new one is XP, the versions of NTFS will not work. What should I do? I guess I could use a live linux cd, but I don't know how to mount a usb drive in the shell. Can anyone please help me with the linux part, or suggest another option?
The versions of ntfs are entirely compatible between 2k and XP. Does your motherboard not have any IDE ports - Last I checked they were still included for CD/DVD drives. If it does have IDE, simply use that, don't boot from it and you should simply be able to drag and drop
I took out my other hdd from the enclosure and put the old one in. It appeared in device manager, but not in my computer, when I tried to populate the volume, I got this error message: Code: Volume Information for this disk cannot be found. This may happen if the disk is a 1394 or a USB device on a Windows 2000 machine. I tried using disk management, but It wouldnt load. Perhaps now is the time to use linux? Also, I don't know If I should have mentioned this earlier, but windows is corrupted on my old hdd
Could you go on msn? I tried the underscore steadster at hot mail dot com, but you appear to not be online.
nah, thats my old address. try dotunderscoreat @ hotmail . com, Although I'm afraid that I'm off to the pub now so I won't be able to help til tomorrow probably.
You could get something along these lines - note that I just linked to the first result on Google, I have no idea about that company's reliability or whether their price is good.
Spedward911, consider this your ONLY official warning. That's not a remotely useful or needed contribution to this community, and seeing as your only two posts have both been of this nature, it's not something that will be tolerated.
normally xp is backwards compatible.. what version of Xp do u have? home/Pro ? or is the problem solved allready
Home does however suck in many of these aspects. It really wouldn't hurt to upgrade to Pro and see if that miraculously fixes it if you have the chance to do so. Maybe check the disk on someone else's computer, who has 2000 or XP Pro?
