I'm running XP on an older machine and installed a new Seagate Barracuda 80GB harddrive (ATA - matches the original old Seagate drive which was starting to show signs of wear like file corruption). The new drive works fine, and it does recognize the old drive in "My Computer". On both old and new drives, I'm logged in as administrator using identical names and passwords.
The old drive properties shows 40GB+ of data, and the data is all there when I use it as a master. However, when installed as a slave with the new master drive, I can't access the old drive data. I have read several threads here and elsewhere and went through the "take ownership of files/folders" process. I opened the new drive in safe mode, went through the microsoft steps all the way to getting the "do you want to replace the directory permissions with permissions granting you full control" message. (I did this process with the documents and settings folder on the slave drive). It went through the process of giving me ownership of all the files in that folder which took several minutes, and I clicked OK and reapplied the permissions and security settings.
Now, in safe mode, after doing those steps, I was then able to access the data in the documents/settings folder on the slave drive. However, when I restart the new drive in regular mode and try to open the documents folder on the slave drive, even though its "properties" indicates there's 300MB of data in the folder, none of the subfolders appears to contain anything and I can't access the data.
When I installed the old drive as a slave drive, I thought I'd be able to open it just like any other secondary drive. This is driving me nuts!!
Does anybody have any other ideas on how to resolve this?? Per the Seagate instructions, I set the jumper on the master to pins 7/8 and no jumpers (slave) on the slave drive. I also tried the slave drive with the 5/6 pins set to "cable select" but it didn't seem to make any difference.
thanks
