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Anyone out there can you help me with this problem. I am pulling my hair out over it.
I have an old IDE hard drive from a machine that is probably 95-97 vintage if not earlier. The hard drive is a Conner 210mb drive that has been formatted to run windows 3.11 along with some specialised windows 3.11 software that I need to keep. The old computer packed up and I want to recover all the old information on the drive and probably transfer it to a new up to date drive. So information recovery is my main objective.
I whipped out the drive and connected it to my current Windows XP machine at work via the USB port and a relevant IDE drive cable/interface. When turned on the drive spins and powers up and windows tells me that it has been connected and recognised it and is ready to use. However, when I use explorer or my computer the drive is not there. I have gone to administrative tools/computer management within control panel and looked at disk management & device manager.
Device manager shows the drive correctly and says that it is working properly but does not show any volume details or size information. In fact is shows it as 0 bytes.
Disk management does not show it at all. So I can not reassign any drive letters as there arent any.
I have googled this problem using USB external hard drive not recognised by windows XP and it returns hundreds of threads which are the same problem as mine. Most state that you must re assign a drive letter under disk management but I cant do this as it doesnt appear. Others have similar problems. I have now tried connecting the drive to 3 different XP machines and the results are the same on each machine.
I then managed to find an old PC and removed the hard disk in this machine and installed this problematic drive. The machine booted perfectly and the windows 3.11 ran ok. So this partly solves my problem as I can now get the disk running but I still want to be able to connect the drive external to another machine to make life simple in terms of copying all the relevant file that I want.
So in summary do you know a solution to this problem. As the drive is very old I want to make a backup copy anyway in case it falls over and I loose everything. I have Ghost but cant use this on the old machine so I need to connect this drive to use backup anyway.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received
I have an old IDE hard drive from a machine that is probably 95-97 vintage if not earlier. The hard drive is a Conner 210mb drive that has been formatted to run windows 3.11 along with some specialised windows 3.11 software that I need to keep. The old computer packed up and I want to recover all the old information on the drive and probably transfer it to a new up to date drive. So information recovery is my main objective.
I whipped out the drive and connected it to my current Windows XP machine at work via the USB port and a relevant IDE drive cable/interface. When turned on the drive spins and powers up and windows tells me that it has been connected and recognised it and is ready to use. However, when I use explorer or my computer the drive is not there. I have gone to administrative tools/computer management within control panel and looked at disk management & device manager.
Device manager shows the drive correctly and says that it is working properly but does not show any volume details or size information. In fact is shows it as 0 bytes.
Disk management does not show it at all. So I can not reassign any drive letters as there arent any.
I have googled this problem using USB external hard drive not recognised by windows XP and it returns hundreds of threads which are the same problem as mine. Most state that you must re assign a drive letter under disk management but I cant do this as it doesnt appear. Others have similar problems. I have now tried connecting the drive to 3 different XP machines and the results are the same on each machine.
I then managed to find an old PC and removed the hard disk in this machine and installed this problematic drive. The machine booted perfectly and the windows 3.11 ran ok. So this partly solves my problem as I can now get the disk running but I still want to be able to connect the drive external to another machine to make life simple in terms of copying all the relevant file that I want.
So in summary do you know a solution to this problem. As the drive is very old I want to make a backup copy anyway in case it falls over and I loose everything. I have Ghost but cant use this on the old machine so I need to connect this drive to use backup anyway.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received