Read NT4 SP6 on XP

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I have old IDE drive that appears to work in an old Pentium box. It has NT
4 SP6 on it. It has a few driver problems preventing it from booting the
computer all the way so I figured I would just pop it into a USB IDE
enclosure. I tried two different model enclosures on my XP Pro SP2 computer
and the file system is not readable.

Disk Manager will show the drive and the partition as healthy, and I can see
it show up as a D drive in Explorer, but whenever I try to explore the drive
I am asked to format the drive.

It has been about 8 years since I touched a 4.0 drive so I don't recall if
there are issues with XP reading an NT 4 file system. Any suggestions.

[Pegasus [MVP]]

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I have old IDE drive that appears to work in an old Pentium box. It has NT
4 SP6 on it. It has a few driver problems preventing it from booting the
computer all the way so I figured I would just pop it into a USB IDE
enclosure. I tried two different model enclosures on my XP Pro SP2
computer and the file system is not readable.
Disk Manager will show the drive and the partition as healthy, and I can
see it show up as a D drive in Explorer, but whenever I try to explore the
drive I am asked to format the drive.
It has been about 8 years since I touched a 4.0 drive so I don't recall if
there are issues with XP reading an NT 4 file system. Any suggestions.

WinXP will handle anything that WinNT4 does. You're probably dealing with a
compatibility issue between the disk and the USB case. If you connect the NT
disk as a slave disk then you can most likely read it.