There's some other problem here, Wally. XP will read FAT 32 drives with
no problem. I do this often when helping people transfer files, and many
manufacturers shipped XP as FAT32.
Double-check your jumper settings. Do you know for sure that this drive
is good?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hugh:
I appreciate your reply.
The drive is a 10Gb one with a single 10 Gb primary
partition with a C:\ drive formatted in FAT 32.
The operating system is win 98 SE. When I make this
drive the slave drive and boot an other drive as master
formatted in NTFS, with windows XP Pro on it, the
FAT 32 drive is not found. The drive itself
is picked up by the CMOS during turn on of the
computer as a slave drive. That is of course
exclusive of how the drive is formatted. The
drive is recognized but the C:\partition is not
found by Win XP when the C:\ partition
is formatted to FAT 32.
I was hoping that there was a program (free) that
would permit access to the drive from DOS.
There is a program that uses a Linux system
to access NTFS formatted drives from DOS.
However, NTFS formatted drives are easily
recognized by win XP and WIN 2000
operating systems.
Wally
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