unable to access partitions

[Mark Peereboom]

After a format of my primary partition and a new
installation of Windows XP I am unable to access my other
partitions. How can I regain access to my partitions?

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Please define cannot access, can you see the partitions, can you see the
files on the partitions but you are unable to open or view any of the files?

 

[Mark Peereboom]

I can see all the partitions and they have the label
Local Disc. In the harddisc properties I see the
partitions with the labels they used to have. And in the
disc properties it sais that the file system is raw. If I
click on one of the partitions I get the error "not
accessible access denied."

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Is the partition you just formatted FAT32 while there others are NTFS?

 

[Mark Peereboom]

Partition I just formatted is the primary partition and
is NTFS. The other partitions were also formatted with
NTFS. However when I look at the the properties of my c:\
drive now it says file system FAT 32 while I am almost
sure that I formatted with NTFS. Well, ok maybe I made a
mistake here, but if the file system is fat 32 is there
still a way to get my data back?

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

I think your data is there and C just doesn't recognize it because FAT32
cannot recognize an NTFS partition. You can either convert the drive to
NTFS or do a new install on this partition and format NTFS during XP setup.
The preferred way would be a new install as conversion will leave you with a
very small cluster size.

 

[Mark Peereboom]

Thank you very much.

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

You're welcome.