Hard Drive ? - PLease help. I am losing it.

I talked about this in another thread, but this is different prob. I have a drive that I took out of a computer that didn't work anymore. It has XP installed on it and some stuff I need. The computer I put it in recognizes it and I set the jumper to the drive on the correct setting. How do I get into this hard drive? Shouldn't I be able to go to My Computer and access the icon? I don't see on. Pllllleeeeeeaaaassssssseeee help?

 

If I read your other post correctly, you are now running WinME and trying to see an XP(NTFS) HD and are not able to find it in My Computer.

You could try this software http://www.softlookup.com/display.asp?id=25391

I have no experience with it but it is free.

 

Thanks for the advice. I downloaded the software, but when I try to run it, it says it is "not a WIN32 application."

Now what? Can I make this program work or is there some other way to get into the hard drive?

Thanks again.

 

Sorry for the delay, I couldn't download that program to check it out. My link didn't work for me.

This may or may not be the same program but at least it downloads and runs. Give it a try.

http://www.programurl.com/diskinternals-ntfs-reader.htm

 

If the hard drive your talking about was malfunctioning on the first computer, I'd be real careful about plugging it in to your healthy one. I once had a malfunctioning drive on my computer and when I tried to access it from my first, good drive the problem quickly spread into a system wide catastrophe.

Besides cautioning you on that, I'd recommend looking through majorgeek's list of hard drive utilities. They've got lots of good stuff and I'm sure you can find something there that's pertinent to your problem.

 

Thanks again for your help. I got the NTFS Reader and installed it, but now it gives me a "Access Denied......Local Administrator Privileges required to run product." Now what? Every time I get ahead, I run into something else.

 

Thanks for the advice Mongoose. I really appreciate the help. No, the hd I am trying to get into was fine. I will check out those forum pages. Thanks.

 

I'd say you've run into a pretty sweet and simple something else to run into. It's way better than a blue screen of death so keep your chin up m8.

As I understand it, if your running XP at least, all you need to do is log into the administrator account and you should be home free. With Vista, on the other hand, privileges and security are a total, whacked out nightmare, but as I remember you said you have XP so that shouldn't be a problem.

 

Mongoose is right if you are running it from XP you need to be administrator. I thought you were on ME. But didn't think ME had administrator settings.

 

another option would be to boot with linux on a cd, like knoppix. and use it to copy from one drive to the other...I haven't done this before, but im pretty sure it works. Ive used knoppix but not to copy anything.
http://knoppix.com/

 

Maybe I am confusing people. If I am, sorry. The system I am using now is running ME. The hard drive I want to get into is running XP. When I used NTFS Reader to get into the drive, it gave the message about local administrator. How the hell can I confirm I am the administrator if I can't even get in the damn thing.

 

Sorry, I am at a loss for any suggestions because I can't test anything since i don't have a 98/ME computer.

A live linux CD should work but there is a learning curve.

 

Your help has been very much appreciated. Thanks. I am going to keep working on this. If you or anyone else thing of anything, let me know. Thanks a lot.

 

Why don't you try running from the XP drive and moving your files from there to ME instead of running from ME and pulling stuff off the XP? Or you could unplug your ME drive entirely and put the files you want on discs or a flash drive or a usb drive or something like that.

 

Mongoose,

I think the history is that he had 2 pc's: one XP and one ME. The XP comp died and now he wants to use the ME comp but recover his files off the XP hard drive. Unfortunately ME won't see NTFS drives.

 

I'M IN IN!!! The NTFS Reader is identifying the hard drive. Thanks very very much for all your help people. It is very appreciated.