NAV 6 Caused FAT32 to Change to NTFS?

[Terry Smythe]

My daughter's 1.6ghz computer, running under WinME, picked up a nasty virus.
Try as I might, NAV 5 would not scan the drive. After 4 hours of
frustration, I was convinced clean reinstall of WinME was called for. In
general principles, I copied all her critical directories and files over to
another backup hard drive before formating it.

Again, under general principles, I attached the back-up hard drive to my
WinXP computer in order to run NAV6 against it. My WinXP computer
properly recognized this drive as FAT32 and NAV6 was sent to it for a full
drive scan. It finally reported clean and green.

Following a clean reinstall of WinME to her main hard drive, I re-attached
the backup hard drive. Hmmmmmnnnnnn, it would not be recognized. So, I
mounted the backup drive in my workbench computer and booted to a WinME
startup floppy. C: could not be seen. Fdisk to my horror reported
that what once was a FAT32 drive is now an NTFS drive, which of course
cannot be read by WinME.

So, back to my WinXP (NTFS) computer for a closer inspection. It now
reports that this 60gig hard drive has 68megs consumed. But I can't see it
or access it. Can it be that NAV6 did the conversion? Or should I
have known better than to attach a FAT32 drive to an NTFS computer?

What utilities are out there that can deal with this strange, ominous turn
of events?

Regards,

Terry Smythe
Winnipeg, Canada

 

[Guest]

Regardless of what OS youre going to use on the hd,install xp cd,boot to xp
cd,recovery,in recovery typeiskPart In DiskPart,delete the
partition(s),create
one,press ESC key.From this point,type:FORMAT C: /FS:FAT32 or ntfs or
type:EXIT You can also,download the MS-DOS utility from the hd mfg,install
to a MS-DOS formatted floppy,boot to floppy,run the utility.

 

[Guest]

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=288&pt_sid=1573c4935b414da8b3d5e0c8f75c3061
Check the drive with the above partinfo tool to verify NTFS conversion, make
sure you are setting the jumpers correctly on the drive and check it in the
slave position on the XP machine.. I use NIS w/NAV and have no problems
scanning FAT32 or NTFS partitions..
j;-j