Hugh:
I think that it being a bootable drive as
suggested by Clint is the source of the problem.
The restore program on my WIN XP Home
computer uses A FAT 32 Formatted partition
for the restore data. It is not a bootable
partition.
That drive is seen from
the WIN XP program that is on a NTFS
formatted partition. I am locked out from
access to the restore programs. I have
copied them to CD's using the program
supplied with the WIN XP OS. I plan
to see if they work when I get a chance.
Wally
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 03:16:57 -0500 Hugh Vandervoort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> 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?
>
>
> `
>
> [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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