Clint:
Right now I only have two physical
hard drives connected in cable select. By going
into set up, I can pick which one I want to boot
from. That gives me Win 98 SE and Win XP Pro.
I can acess the Win XP boot drive from Win 98
but not the other way around.
Wally
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:23:26 -0600 "Support-OrpheusComputing.com"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
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