Moving drive to XP Computer 1

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Had 3 SCSI orb drives on my Win95 computer.They worked beautifully. Hooked one to my XP computer via a SCSI to USB adapter and it worked, but was slower and sometimes had to be reinstalled. So bought an Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI board and installed it in the XP computer so the orb would run like on Win95 (disk formatted fat32 as had worked when USB). The SCSI installation went smooth but when I tried to read the drive the computer said "disk not formatted" which was not true. But I went ahead and formatted it in XP (fat32). Now XP says "no disk in drive".
XP reports the SCSI board is working fine and the drive is working fine, but it isn't working at all.

 

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One more think I just noticed. The disks that had been tried in the drive on XP will no longer work in the drives on Win95.

 

[jimp56]

see if this helps (lifted from help file from disk management):

To initialize new disks
Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management.
Computer Management (Local)
Storage
Disk Management

Right-click the disk you want to initialize, and then click Initialize Disk.
In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the disk(s) to initialize.
The disk is initialized as a basic disk.

Notes
To open Computer Management, click Start, and then click Control Panel. Click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
New disks appear as Not Initialized. Before you can use a disk, you must first initialize it. If you start Disk Management after adding a disk, the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you can initialize the disk.
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Bought all new adapters and cabling and the drive did install. Disk management showed working fine. And it did, I wrote and read from it all morning. Then shut down at noon. Tried to boot up at 1:00 and the computer said "boot error" and would not boot. Same error on repeated tries, then I unplugged the drive and it would boot. Reinstalled the drive and it works fine. Why would it be stopping me from booting?--the SCSI board and the drive both show OK when get them running.