My first post here, so please be gentle
I'm going to go into some detail just in case something in here will be responsible for my problem.
I just picked up a new PC and installed XP on it last night (XP Home SP2). Just in case it matters it's a P4 2.4c (800 MHz FSB and HT), 512MB, 80GB, 64MB 8X AGP, DVD/CD-ROM, 16x Dual Layer DVD burner, 7-in-one floppy (which shows up as 3 drives - floppy and 2 separate removable drives)
After formatting the drive with NTFS and installing XP I then installed Norton System Works and Norton Personal Firewall. I then connected to the web and updated XP and Norton.
I then connected the drive from my old PC (98SE), a 10.2 GB Western Digital EIDE with FAT32. XP stated it detected new hardware but I could not find the drive in Windows Explorer or My Computer.
I went to My Computer > Properties >Hardware and the drive was shown there as active and functioning properly. It was also listed on the list of drives in (I think this is what it's called) "Computer Management" that is found in Accessories. It shows as being FAT32, it states the right size and that it's ok but it doesn't indicate a drive letter and the only option it would give me was to delete the partition which it stated would delete all the files on the drive.
So my question is, how can I transfer my old files from these (I have 2) older FAT32 drives?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I'm going to go into some detail just in case something in here will be responsible for my problem.
I just picked up a new PC and installed XP on it last night (XP Home SP2). Just in case it matters it's a P4 2.4c (800 MHz FSB and HT), 512MB, 80GB, 64MB 8X AGP, DVD/CD-ROM, 16x Dual Layer DVD burner, 7-in-one floppy (which shows up as 3 drives - floppy and 2 separate removable drives)
After formatting the drive with NTFS and installing XP I then installed Norton System Works and Norton Personal Firewall. I then connected to the web and updated XP and Norton.
I then connected the drive from my old PC (98SE), a 10.2 GB Western Digital EIDE with FAT32. XP stated it detected new hardware but I could not find the drive in Windows Explorer or My Computer.
I went to My Computer > Properties >Hardware and the drive was shown there as active and functioning properly. It was also listed on the list of drives in (I think this is what it's called) "Computer Management" that is found in Accessories. It shows as being FAT32, it states the right size and that it's ok but it doesn't indicate a drive letter and the only option it would give me was to delete the partition which it stated would delete all the files on the drive.
So my question is, how can I transfer my old files from these (I have 2) older FAT32 drives?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.