Dell 3000 w/ XP will not read an old Win98se harddrive with data

[HKSturboKID]

Well my friend just purchase the dell 3000 w/ 17" lcd and he had a old compaq that is running a win98 se on it. I went to house this morning and help him setup the pc and tranfer files over from the old harddrive. I took the old harddrive out from the compaq pc which is a ibm deskstar 20 GB hardrive and set it to slave and plug it right into the Dell system. The bios detects the drive, once in xp, there are no new drive letter associate with the drive. I went to disk management and it sees the drive there. When I try to assign a drive letter to it, its grey out. I try to go to its properties in disk management and it ask if I wanted to format the drive. At that point, I was sweating thinking I might have don't something wrong and wipeout his drive.... So I said no to format. quickly take the drive back out and put it back into the old compaq and turn it on and win98 boots right back up. What a relieve.... Does anyone know why XP detects the drive but can't win any data or associate a letter to the harddrive?

Thanks

 

[jackschmittusa]

Does the drive in the Dell need to be jumpered master instead of single with 2 drives?

 

[redbeard1]

I've seen this before. The way a bios automatically detects a drive drive is supposed to be standard. That said, sometimes there are minor differences, especially from older systems to new ones that can cause what your seeing. On that same vain, was the bios setup up with manual drive settings on the old computer instead of auto. Manually set drives on one system and then auto detected on another system can cause the problem too.

Is it possible to network them temporarily?

 

[KGB]

Kid,

Chances are the Dell system is setup as Cable Select for the drives.
What happens if you jumper the IBM drive as CS and try it?