[pchelpers] Re: Hard Drive Readability

Hi Susan,

Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 4:23:16 PM, you wrote:

S> I've now got XP up and running on my computer. I installed a fresh
S> new hard drive as my primary drive, and my secondary hard drive was
S> taken from my Windows 2000 computer. Unfortunately Windows is
S> unable to read any of the contents on the second drive. Not sure
S> why exactly. It's listed in the device manager but it says it's
S> Unallocated. The drive was originally formatted in Windows 2000 in
S> the NTFS file system so I didn't think there'd be any issues
S> installing it in XP. So why can't XP read the contents of the
S> drive?

Is it a bootable drive, or was it a secondary on the Win2K machine also?

-- 
Scott.



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