Wally, you must have the 98 drive as master. Making it as slave creates
this problem. You have changed the Master Boot Record of this drive by
making it slave.
An NTFS drive can be slave and have any drive letter attached to it, and
still be the boot drive. The 98 disk must be hidden when installing XP,
but can be unhidden after installation. To have 98 see the XP partition
you can use an NTFS driver for 98, Sysinternals has a read only driver
for 98 here http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsWindows98.html and
there is a full access driver for DOS too
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsDosProfessional.html
So, if you switch it back you may be able to do what you need, though
you may have to use a tool to restore the MBR like fdisk
http://www.mdgx.com/secrets.htm#FDISK-M.
Moving disks around with previously installed operating systems always
has pitfalls and the OS's always whine and complain to some degree :(
HTH
Peter Kaulback
[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
9 Oct 2006 03:50:31 -0500 Hugh Vandervoort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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