You could try temporarily removing the new XP hard drive from the new machine, and installing and booting from the old ME hard drive. (You won't need to completely remove the new drive, just plug the data and power cables into the ME drive.) It should boot, but will spend some time looking for drivers for the new hardware, so you'll probably need your ME install disks. Once that is done, try copying the files to a zip disk or burning a CD.
-Carl Donsbach
--On Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:42 PM -0500 Raymond Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To all advisors,
I truly appreciate all the advice I am getting. BUT, go easy - I really don't know as much as I let on (which isn't much to begin with).
The new NTFS drive is the C drive it is booting from.
The F drive shows up OK but many of the files and folders are not accessible. Could the problem be in the manner in which my son, the junior computer guru installed it?
Neither are partitioned.
RH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Raymond Horton'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:28 PM Subject: RE: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS
Win XP can read FAT32 from an NTFS installation/partition and NTFS from a FAT32 installation/partition. Win9x including WinME cannot read NTFS.
You should arrange the two drives so that you boot from the NTFS installation/partition. One way to do this is place the NTFS drive as master on the primary IDE cable and the FAT32 drive as master on the secondary IDE cable. On most systems, you do this when by disconnecting the IDE cable to the CD/CR-RW/DVD drive(s) and attaching it to the FAT32 drive.
When you boot in this manner, WinXp on the NTFS drive will read and allow you to copy anything you wish from the FAT32 drive. If both drives have a single partition, the NTFS drive will be C:\ and the FAT32 drive will be D:\. Windows Explorer will do this fine for data files; however, this does not work very well for transferring operating system files with Long File Names (LFN). However, Finale files should transfer fine including those with LFN.
Roger
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond Horton Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 4:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS
Please help me, knowledgeable people!
A year or so back I "upgraded" my Dell Pentium 4 from WinME to WinXP. Now, after a series of hardware problems in warrenty, Dell has shipped me a new system. I have to ship the old one back pretty soon, but have temporarilly installed my old hard disk in the new machine to copy selected files onto the new hard disk. ( I know there are other options, but for various reasons I think I had better stay with this one.) The old machine is unusable.
The old hard disk is in the FAT32 format, the new one NTFS. This causes problems when I try to access old files, especially my Finale files. (I have backups for some, but not all, of my Finale files.) I have found directions for converting the entire drive to NTFS, but I am very nervous about this, fearing that I the resulting .MUS files may be unusable.
I have painstakenly copied all of the Finale files that I can access, but several of my newer files (mostly ones I created or changed under XP) are not accessible. Typically, when I click on a folder I get "that drive is not formatted - do you wish to format?"
Are my fears warranted? Should I bite the bullet and run the:
convert F: /fs:ntfs /v
or should I try to find somebody with a WinME machine that will let me install this hard drive and get at my files? or what?
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