Can A Dumby slave a Harddrive?

[smallclaimshammer]

I own two computers, one has a problem with the XP Pro OS, and I want my grand kids photos...I heard I could pull the harddrive from it and put it in the other computer which has Windows 98 OS, making it a slave and getting all the pictures into a file and floppys to save them.  Might even get the XP Pro to run with another password, and the floppy, CD drives to run.    
    Does the slave use the same cables it has now?    What  do you do to get the running system, to recognize the slave.  A>B> C....Greek to me.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.

[1badtech]

[quote name=\'smallclaimshammer\' date=\'May 7 2005, 07:56 PM\']I own two computers, one has a problem with the XP Pro OS, and I want my grand kids photos...I heard I could pull the harddrive from it and put it in the other computer which has Windows 98 OS, making it a slave and getting all the pictures into a file and floppys to save them.  Might even get the XP Pro to run with another password, and the floppy, CD drives to run.     
    Does the slave use the same cables it has now?    What  do you do to get the running system, to recognize the slave.  A>B> C....Greek to me.  Any suggestions will be appreciated.

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Windows 98 uses FAT and your Windows XP Pro is probably setup using NTFS file system.  The windows 98 computer won't be able to read your Win XP hard drive.

You can get another Windows XP computer and plug in your hard drive.  Most computers has an extra port for a 2nd hard drive. You should be OK to connect a 2nd hard drive.  Just make sure that you set the 2nd hard drive as a slave drive.

[fusion]

1badtech is definitely right, the old windows 98 system will probably have a hard time reading the drive since the file system is different.  It is possible that the Windows XP drive is on a FAT system, but very unlikely, since you really have to go out of your way to do it.

Also if you try it in another computer and set the jumper on the back of the drive to slave, make sure you set the jumper on the primary drive to master.  Some drives distinguish between master with a slave and just a single drive by itself.

Hope it helps