HARD DISK XP HOME->XP PROF

[cebunightcap]

i have a slave hard disk that ran on my xp proffesional computer. i took the slave drive out, took it to another cpu running xp home, installed it, and now its foreign and it wont display my hard disk. how can i get by this? i read in the help section that its not possible to run a hard disk that was on xp prof on a xp home machine, but this was a slave hard disk on the xp prof machine.. does that make a differnce? when i check the status of my slave hard drive on the xp home machine, it just says its foreign... please help!!!

[Skunkboy]

depends on what format the drive is in... NTFS or FAT.

NTFS main drive should be able to read both NTFS and FAT but FAT won't read NTFS

[cebunightcap]

ok, whats the quickest way to find out what im using (ntfs or fat) and what the primary hard drive is... sorry, bare with me bc im a newbie :)

[Skunkboy]

In My Computer, click on your hard drive *not double* and it should tell you what the "File System" is.

[B&T]

depends on what format the drive is in... NTFS or FAT.

NTFS main drive should be able to read both NTFS and FAT but FAT won't read NTFS
Are you sure? I thought W2k and XP could read either format drive regardless of the boot drive format. I do not have a FAT boot drive to test this theory.

[B&T]

Are the jumpers on the drives are conflicting? Have you checked this? Also, look in your BIOS setup and see what you have.

Your drive may have been set to cable select (often the case on new systems) and the cable is now reversed? I always use the master/slave settings to avoid this.

[cebunightcap]

ok, the master drive is 40G, NTFS.... the slave 40mb slave drive doesnt show, but it does detect it in the device drivers thing... says its a foreign disk drive in the services.msc thingy... any suggestions?? i dont wanna have to erase everything on the slave drive just for it to detect like it asks... thanks guys :)

[(jj)]

Have you checked your data cable (the flat ribbon cable) and made sure it was connected solid at the drive AND motherboard? Also, make sure it is connected correctly, some cables can be reversed. Normally there is a stripe on one side of the cable, and that should go to the same side where the power connector is located.

If you are using the same cable for both drives, is one of them a 100 drive that uses the 80 wire cable? If you have one 66 that uses the 40 conductor cable and one 100 that uses the 80 conductor, you can not connect them both to the same cable.

[cebunightcap]

hey i went ahead and upgraded the xp home to prof so i dont have any conflicts.. thanks for the help anyways guys :)