Partition Magic

[element]

I recently ran win2k pro until the hard drive crashed, so I bought a new hard drive and upgraded to win xp. I have a dual boot (one for win98 and one for win xp) and I want to be able to view both drives (disk 1 and disk 2) from xp. I have partition magic and tried to un-hide the disk 2 and my computer rebooted, and I kept getting errors, then it rebooted again and I'm back at the desktop with the drive still hidden.

I was able to view both drives from win 2k before my hard drive failed and it was very convenient since I still had files saved on the other drive. Is it even still possible to view both drives from xp?

 

[sboulema]

Hi and welcome at xp-eirence.org
it is possible to show two drives. But windows cant handle 2 active drives, so set 1 drive to inactive. Maybe this will help.

 

[element]

Will I still be able to move files between the 2 drives? I just need to retrieve one folder (it's bulk ~1GB), then I'm going to take the 2nd drive out.

 

[sboulema]

yep you can do that. Just set the drive with 98 on it to inactive with partition magic and then you will be able to see the 2 drives and you can copy youre folder with xp and remove Your old drive...

 

[Hipster Doofus]

How did you set the system up to do a dual boot with the new hard drive?

 

[element]

With Boot Magic.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Have you got boot magic running from '98?

 

[Hipster Doofus]

What about file systems? NTFS or fat32 for xp?

 

[element]

Boot Magic from win XP, and XP is NTFS

The drive with win 98 keeps going back to hidden for some reason =\