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when freeing up space on one of my hard drives I deleted the windows folder
(I didn't think I needed it as it wasn't my primary drive) and then it was no
longer accessible on winxp. it was listed as RAW but everything was still
intact when I switched my primary drive to one that was windows 98, fat32,
and read the drive properly as fat32. I made my windows 98, fat32, into a
windowsXP, fat32. I thought that this would allow me to recognize the drive
so I could use the convert command in XP to change the fat32 to ntfs.
however it recognized it as a RAW drive (even though both were fat32) so
again I could not do anything with it. I can still access it with a form of
dos (non-windows dos) but I cannot run convert outside windows. the winxp cd
did not recognized it as RAW as well and it's been a while since I lost my
windows 98 cd. there seemed to be a similar problem but it was only listed
under windows 2000 (it said there was a boot table error so you have to
overwrite it with a backup...something like that) and I don't want to try it
unless I have to. I have 30 GB or so of files I don't want deleted, so I'd
really rather not format it or take any action that would lose those files.
Thank you for your time.
(I didn't think I needed it as it wasn't my primary drive) and then it was no
longer accessible on winxp. it was listed as RAW but everything was still
intact when I switched my primary drive to one that was windows 98, fat32,
and read the drive properly as fat32. I made my windows 98, fat32, into a
windowsXP, fat32. I thought that this would allow me to recognize the drive
so I could use the convert command in XP to change the fat32 to ntfs.
however it recognized it as a RAW drive (even though both were fat32) so
again I could not do anything with it. I can still access it with a form of
dos (non-windows dos) but I cannot run convert outside windows. the winxp cd
did not recognized it as RAW as well and it's been a while since I lost my
windows 98 cd. there seemed to be a similar problem but it was only listed
under windows 2000 (it said there was a boot table error so you have to
overwrite it with a backup...something like that) and I don't want to try it
unless I have to. I have 30 GB or so of files I don't want deleted, so I'd
really rather not format it or take any action that would lose those files.
Thank you for your time.