Clint:
Your point about the bootable drive is well taken.
I just checked and with WIN XP on a 2Gb drive
formatted in FAT 16, the other Hard drive
(FAT 32 , Win 98 SE) which is bootable does not
show under windows explorer. However it shows
as a drive in good condition under the disk
management.program of WIN XP.
I just cannot access any of the files on the drive..
Wally
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:50:08 -0600 "Support-OrpheusComputing.com"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
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