XP/FAT32

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Mav

Hi all,

Be gentle with me....

I have 2 HDDs - I had W98SE installed on one, and the other just used for
data - formatted as FAT32.

I have just upgraded to XP and it doesn't recognise the second drive. It
appears in device manager, is working correctly, but XP doesn't like it -
the drive doesn't appear in either My Computer or Windows Explorer. I
reformatted the primary master to NTFS during installation, but have left
the other drive as FAT32.

Am I wrong in thinking that XP should recognise a FAT32 partition, or would
this only be if the primary partition is still FAT32?

Any suggestions?

Thanks very much.
Mav
 
Go to run,type:diskmgmt.ms
In mgmt L.click the drive,action,all,select,mark drive as active,close-out
You can also go to run,type:cmd In cmd type:DiskPar
list disk then/or list volume typing:Help gets you menu
 
Don't do that. Marking it as the active drive may cause the system to not
boot.

If anything, try using disk manager to redetect the drive (under tools).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
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