NTFS can't read FAT32

[Trent©]

I have a 2nd hard drive...that I use on my bench machine. I've got it
set up as FAT32...so that I can put experimental programs on it...and
access it no matter what drive I boot into. Its the slave on the
secondary controller...master is the CDRW.

My boot drive is the master(single) on the primary...no slave.

All of a sudden, I can't access that 2nd drive with any NTFS boot
drive. I get an error message that the drive needs to be formatted.

If I boot with a Win95, Win98, or Win98SE drive, I have no problem. I
can access the secondary drive...delete, move, run programs from the C
drive, etc. All the data is still there.

If I boot with an NTFS drive...XPsp1, XPsp2, W2Ksp4...I get the error
message. If I go into disk management, the drive shows up there. I
just can't access it.

I've tried uninstalling the drive...with no success. It gets
recognized on the reboot...but it still wants to reformat.

Anybody got any ideas?


Have a nice one...

Trent

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[David H. Lipman]

Did you use any proprietary partitioning software on the FAT32 drive ?

Dave




| I have a 2nd hard drive...that I use on my bench machine. I've got it
| set up as FAT32...so that I can put experimental programs on it...and
| access it no matter what drive I boot into. Its the slave on the
| secondary controller...master is the CDRW.
|
| My boot drive is the master(single) on the primary...no slave.
|
| All of a sudden, I can't access that 2nd drive with any NTFS boot
| drive. I get an error message that the drive needs to be formatted.
|
| If I boot with a Win95, Win98, or Win98SE drive, I have no problem. I
| can access the secondary drive...delete, move, run programs from the C
| drive, etc. All the data is still there.
|
| If I boot with an NTFS drive...XPsp1, XPsp2, W2Ksp4...I get the error
| message. If I go into disk management, the drive shows up there. I
| just can't access it.
|
| I've tried uninstalling the drive...with no success. It gets
| recognized on the reboot...but it still wants to reformat.
|
| Anybody got any ideas?
|
|
| Have a nice one...
|
| Trent
|
| Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!
|
|
|

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have a 2nd hard drive...that I use on my bench machine. I've got it
set up as FAT32...so that I can put experimental programs on it...and
access it no matter what drive I boot into. Its the slave on the
secondary controller...master is the CDRW.

My boot drive is the master(single) on the primary...no slave.

All of a sudden, I can't access that 2nd drive with any NTFS boot
drive. I get an error message that the drive needs to be formatted.

If I boot with a Win95, Win98, or Win98SE drive, I have no problem. I
can access the secondary drive...delete, move, run programs from the C
drive, etc. All the data is still there.

If I boot with an NTFS drive...XPsp1, XPsp2, W2Ksp4...I get the error
message. If I go into disk management, the drive shows up there. I
just can't access it.

Note that the File system that the OS is installed on has nothing at all
to do with its reading the drive

It may well result in your having it as slave with a CD drive as master
on that channel. That is generally regarded as being the wrong way
round, and may result in troubles. Switch over