Hard Drive

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First of All I have 2 hard drives on my system. One is a
10 Gig and the other is a 40 Gig. The Operating system is
on the 10 Gig and the 40 Gig is used mainly for storage.
Recently I upgraded my computer and formatted the c:/ and
installed Win Xp on it, I chose to use the NFTS file
system on the 10 Gig hard drive. Now because before it
was FAT32, when I go into windows it does not detect the
40 Gig d:/ and tells me that I need to format it. Is
there anything I could do in order not to loose any of
the information on that Drive?????
 
-----Original Message-----
First of All I have 2 hard drives on my system. One is a
10 Gig and the other is a 40 Gig. The Operating system is
on the 10 Gig and the 40 Gig is used mainly for storage.
Recently I upgraded my computer and formatted the c:/ and
installed Win Xp on it, I chose to use the NFTS file
system on the 10 Gig hard drive. Now because before it
was FAT32, when I go into windows it does not detect the
40 Gig d:/ and tells me that I need to format it. Is
there anything I could do in order not to loose any of
the information on that Drive?????
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Does your bios detect your other hard drive (can you use
it in an msdos enviroenment) or is it only your Windows
os that refuses to recognize it?
 
XP should see and read the FAT32 drive. Right click your
start button and select MANAGE. Look at the storage in disk
management.


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| >-----Original Message-----
| >First of All I have 2 hard drives on my system. One is a
| >10 Gig and the other is a 40 Gig. The Operating system
| is
| >on the 10 Gig and the 40 Gig is used mainly for storage.
| >Recently I upgraded my computer and formatted the c:/
| and
| >installed Win Xp on it, I chose to use the NFTS file
| >system on the 10 Gig hard drive. Now because before it
| >was FAT32, when I go into windows it does not detect the
| >40 Gig d:/ and tells me that I need to format it. Is
| >there anything I could do in order not to loose any of
| >the information on that Drive?????
| >.
| >
| Does your bios detect your other hard drive (can you use
| it in an msdos enviroenment) or is it only your Windows
| os that refuses to recognize it?
 
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Does your bios detect your other hard drive (can you use
it in an msdos enviroenment) or is it only your Windows
os that refuses to recognize it?
.
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Windows does recognize it but In Disk Management it finds
the hard drive and its labeled as D:/ Type is Basic but
there is no File System,also it does not recognize that
the HD is a 40gb
 
-----Original Message-----

Windows does recognize it but In Disk Management it finds
the hard drive and its labeled as D:/ Type is Basic but
there is no File System,also it does not recognize that
the HD is a 40gb

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Back the info on the drive onto c: in either dos or any
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other way you can before you format I would suggest
 
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