Adding older formated hardrive to XP

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the hardrive was changed to the primary slave and the system found it, indicates it is active but will not allow the assigning of a dirve letter. This drive was in a win95 system and was formated as Fat32.

What are my options.
 
Could be, as it was in a Win95 system, it was formatted in FAT16 and is not
recognized.

GLemmon said:
the hardrive was changed to the primary slave and the system found it,
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indicates it is active but will not allow the assigning of a dirve letter.
This drive was in a win95 system and was formated as Fat32.
 
Open diskmgmt.msc and the system should detect the new disk.
You can assign a letter for the Partion(s) on the "old" disk.

Win95 OSR2 has FAT32 and XP can use this but NTFS would be more secure.
So you can (if you're disk was detect) convert the FAT16/32 disk to NTFS
with :

Convert X: /FS:NTFS X = letter of the FAT-Partition


Sorry for the English,
Mfg/Sincerly
Robert Kreß
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Leipzig/Germany
 
disk manager and see if it shows up there, if so you can make it active and assign a drive letter to it there
 
Disk management is where I can see the drive and it is listed as active and
it appears to be formated as Fat32. There is no drive letter assigned and
when I right click the menu option to assign the drive letter is in active.
 
Disk manager sees it as active but the menu item for adding a drive leter is
not active.
preston maxwell said:
disk manager and see if it shows up there, if so you can make it active
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and assign a drive letter to it thereindicates it is active but will not allow the assigning of a dirve letter.
This drive was in a win95 system and was formated as Fat32.
 
Diskmanager reports it as Fat32 formating
Jerry said:
Could be, as it was in a Win95 system, it was formatted in FAT16 and is not
recognized.


indicates it is active but will not allow the assigning of a dirve letter.
This drive was in a win95 system and was formated as Fat32.
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This is a new machine and when we installed another program it indicated
that we were the administrator and we could install the program for just us
or any user. So I beleive that the account has administrator privilages. I
am not in front of the machine but will double check later. Good idea.
 
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