Yeah I forgot to mention that too.....that bootable drive that I could not access in XP also showed under XP's Disk Management area. I don't understand why it would do that. Can you access a 2nd boot drive in 98? -Clint
God Bless Clint Hamilton, Owner http://OrpheusComputing.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" <> 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 > > > ----- 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 =====================================================
