XP/FAT32

[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

 

[Guest]

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 typeiskPar
list disk then/or list volume typing:Help gets you menu

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

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