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How do I get my fat32 data onto my SATA drive?
Recently my old Win 2000 Pro OS, IDE driven computer crashed (black screen-no nothing but the Drives and cooling fans still spun) so I got a new E-Machines ET1831-05 (Windows 7) at Best Buy. I naively figured I could take the two HDD's from the old machine and put them on the new one in parallel with the drive it came with so I would be able to access my old data. I have program on those drives going back to the days of DOS 6 that I still use, believe it or not, in my everyday work.
So what happened was Windows 7 could see there was something in E: but when I clicked on E: a Win 7 error message appeared saying the drive was corrupted or had an unrecognized file system!
Then it says if I want to use the new drive I'll have to format it. Of course I declined that option! Jeez pressing the wrong mouse click and I would loose everything!
A buddy of mine said I had to get a Vantec SATA / IDE to USB .2.0 adapter and load the data by means of USB. So I got that and hooked it up, but basically there's the same error code. It sees E: is there but it doesn't recognize the file system and suggests I format the disk.
Other of my friends who are supposed to be knowledgeable lead me to believe that the problem is the file system on my old drive is fat32 and win 7 only understands NTSF. So researching this I found a site that told me to go into DOS command mode run convert from win32 to convert my fat32 files on the old drive to NTSF.
I tried that, but a dos error message appeared saying it could not convert files on a raw drive. In other words it recognizes nothing on the old drive but rather suggests that the drive was raw! (it was about 3/4 full on the old system).
So I'm stuck. Can anyone help?
Also I was wondering if there is any possible way after this problem is solved can I get my new computer to read a floppy drive? I know floppies are supposed to be ancient history but I have an old Toshiba Notebook that has no USB port, but I use the floppy from the toshiba to feed my desktop machine.
I mentioned this to my computer expert friend who told me I needed the vantec adapter and he said forget it.
Am I screwed on that or what?
Hope someone can help!
Thanks,
Jim99