FWIW, on XP, when I've had two HD's hooked up and BOTH of them were bootable with XP on them, I could not see the other non-booted drive in Windows. It would seem it has a problem seeing a bootable drive when it's not the one being booted. I can't remember now if both were NTFS or if one was FAT32.
It shouldn't matter in DOS. -Clint God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: 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 9 Oct 2006 03:50:31 -0500 Hugh Vandervoort <> writes: > I believe this is a function of the operating system. In XP > or 2000 > you > should be able to access the FAT 32 drive. > What kind of drive, and what's the OS? How do you know it's a > FAT32 > drive? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is there a way to access a drive that has been > > formatted in FAT 32, from other media? > > > > I seem to be able to access other formatted > > drives (Fat 16, NTFS) from the FAT 32 > > drive, but not in the other direction. > > > > Wally ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
