OK, but I had upgraded the old system to XP. RH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Donsbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Raymond Horton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] FAT32 to NTFS > Raymond, > > 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? > >> > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
