PC Review


Reply
Thread Tools Rate Thread

"The disk in drive D is not formatted" after upgrade to Windows XP

 
 
=?Utf-8?B?aHV3MTIzNDU=?=
Guest
Posts: n/a
 
      6th Jan 2005
Hi,
I have two hard-drives connected to my computer.
The first (0) has a single partition
The second (1) has a primary partition and an extended partition containing
two logical drives.

The first logical drive on the second disk is a FAT32 drive which I know as
drive D.

I used to have Windows 98 installed on the first drive on a FAT32 partition
and I could use drive D no problem.

I just installed Windows XP onto the first drive and reformatted the first
drive to NTFS. I did not touch drive D. Now drive D is not accessible.
Using the Disk Management admin tool I can see the partitions and it has
correctly assigned drive D, but when I try to use drive D, either from
windows explorer or using the Disk Management tool it claims that "The disk
in drive D is not formatted. Do you want to format it now".

To check, I rebooted from the Windows 98 CD and the content of drive D
appears fine (although it now appears as drive C; presumably because the old
drive C (disk 0) is NTFS and hence not readable by Windows 98).


Help. How can I get Windows XP to see the content of drive D?

Thanks,
Huw



 
Reply With Quote
 
 
 
Reply

Thread Tools
Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
USB - Disk in Drive "X" is not formatted JohnW Windows XP Accessibility 0 7th Jul 2008 11:08 AM
"The disk in drive G cannot be formatted" "Windows was unable to complete the format" Windows XP Performance 3 26th Nov 2007 06:21 PM
Secure Digital Card Error "Disk in Drive <X> Is Not Formatted" =?Utf-8?B?U3Ryb25nIEVhZ2xl?= Windows XP Hardware 5 10th Aug 2005 07:05 AM
"The disk in drive D is not formatted" after upgrade to Windows XP =?Utf-8?B?aHV3MTIzNDU=?= Windows XP General 0 6th Jan 2005 07:19 PM
"Disk not formatted" error in cd-rom drive Ecco Microsoft Windows 2000 Hardware 4 23rd Jan 2004 01:46 AM


Features
 

Advertising
 

Newsgroups
 


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:52 PM.