Problem hooking up very old hard drives to new computer

[Slick5150]

I have a couple very old Maxtor 200mb hard drives that I wanted to get data off of. I know they work as I booted them up in the old 486 machines they were in, and it worked fine.

I figured the easiest way to get the data would be to just hook the HD's up to my home computer, and burn the data to CD's. I hook them up, the BIOS recognizes that they are there, however Windows then takes a REALLY long time to load up, but once it does, it shows new hardware, hard disk drive, etc... Now, I can see the HD in My Computer, but when I click on it, it again hangs for a bit, then finally brings up the files. But if I try to copy any of them, it doesn't work. It will just sit there, and eventually give an error message. I tried doing it from the command prompt, and it very slowly copied a couple of the files, then gave an error saying "I/O Device error" or something to that effect.

Is there something I need to do in order to get these to work? They are FAT16 formatted disks, so i'm assuming WinXP should be able to read them properly. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

[Amber]

PinwiZ,
Do you have the OLD HDD on the same IDE as the system HDD if you do I would put it on the IDE with the CDRW
it sounds like the OLD HDD is messing up the ATA of the newer HDD and chanel
the OLD HDD is maybe ATA/33 or ATA/66 and the new is ATA/100 or ATA/133
ans CDROM and CDRW's are ATA/33

 

[Slick5150]

I actually tried putting it on the secondary IDE channel by itself. I was thinking the ATA/33 (which I'm guessing it probably is) might be messing around with things, but with it on an IDE channel by itself, I assumed that would resolve that, but maybe not?

Thanks

 

[redbeard1]

I had a similar problem trying to do the same thing. I never found a good fix, and ended up putting a network card in the old system and getting the data off over the network.

Apparently the new systems can't handle very old drives.

 

[compudog]

You can put a network card in each machine and peer to peer network them. Copy files across the network and then burn to CD. I imagine a Windows system driver is causing your problem.

 

[Slick5150]

Well, the other problem being the old system is running Windows 3.11 . I tried installing NetBEUI on my XP machine, but I still can't get the two computers to see each other on a network. Any ideas on that one?

This is definitely becoming far more difficult then it should be.

Thanks for the help