Hard Drive

[Maciek]

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?????

 

[Ben]

-----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?

 

[Jim Macklin]

XP should see and read the FAT32 drive. Right click your
start button and select MANAGE. Look at the storage in disk
management.


|
| >-----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?

 

[Maciek]

-----Original Message-----

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?
.

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

 

[Guest]

-----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

.
Back the info on the drive onto c: in either dos or any

other way you can before you format I would suggest