Peter:
I mis-spoke when I said that the Win 98
drive was a slave. The two drives were connected
in a cable select mode. By going into the set up
program for the computer, I could select which
hard drive would boot when the computer was turned on.
The other drive was visable when the win 98 booted,
but when the Win XP Pro booted the Win 98 drive
(formatted FAT 32) was not visable.
Wally
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:58:59 -0500 Peter Kaulback
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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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