Making an add'l disk r/w under xp

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I've taken the hard drive from an windows/2000 system and
installed as an additonal drive on a new machine under
XP. I have tried the jumpers as "cable select" and
as "slave". In both cases the drive is accesible and I
can read the files. In neither case can I write to the
device. If I reformat the device under xp will I get
write access to it?

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

You just need to give yourself full control of the drive. Boot into
Safe Mode, right click on the second drive, click Properties, and take
ownership/full control of the drive.

Here is a KB article that explains it better:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823306

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Nathan McNulty


Joe D wrote:
> I've taken the hard drive from an windows/2000 system and
> installed as an additonal drive on a new machine under
> XP. I have tried the jumpers as "cable select" and
> as "slave". In both cases the drive is accesible and I
> can read the files. In neither case can I write to the
> device. If I reformat the device under xp will I get
> write access to it?