ive just bought a new case, mb, cpu, memory, hdd etc, built them up. installed xp pro, updated to SP2 and im now fully firewalled and antivirus up,

one problem, whenever ive done this in the past, ive got to this point, then plugged my old HDD in, restarted and dragged all MY DOCUMENTS etc over from my old drive including favourites etc.

just tryed it now and even though the bios and windows recognises that there is a drive there, is says it has not been formatted!

so does anyone know if this is a SP2 problem which somehow stops you doing this,? my old drive was running XP pro the same but only under sp1.

any help appreciated guys .

 

so you sayin you got one with sp2 and one with sp1????

if ya are then that could the the prob HTH

 

Nah, should be fine. Have u changed the jumper settings on the drives mate

 

yep, but the raw data now doesnt appear to be there, does SP1 encrypt the data somehow to a partivular machine so that you cant do this sort of thing?

 

what file system is thew old drive formatted as?

ntfs or fat32?

 

ah yes forgot that one need to be set to master one to slave find the jumper switches on the back of drive

 

both masters, the old one is plugged in on the secondary controller.

 

both formatted as NTFS aswell

 

What by its self?
Your new PC if it is a branded machine IE HP or Packard Hell it may not necasseraly be formatted as NTFS. Now FAT32 cannot read NTFS and this may be the case.

 

forget that last post.

 

im gonna try fire up the old one and just 100% check it still fires on the old drive - i might have to set it up as a shared drive, and access it through a network lead joining the two, can this be done without a hub?

 

without a hub yep. U need a cross over patch lead. Its just the Orange and Green pairs are crossed.

 

bugger, a normal network lead into the network cards wont work then ?

 

|Nope.

 

right, looks like the drive is buggered, plugged it back in, booted off the windaz cd and ran a recovery, it said there are unrecoverable errors on the disk - whats the chances of that happeneing just as i buy a new base unit?!?!