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Hard drive not accesable

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Name: Me
Date: May 10, 2003 at 17:24:46 Pacific
OS: winxp pro
CPU/Ram: 500/256
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i have 2 hdd. i can access the c drive in dos but i cant access the second 1 (M) the bios detects it, and i can acess it fine in windows, but not in dos. any ideas?



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Response Number 1
Name: bitbyte
Date: May 11, 2003 at 05:17:40 Pacific
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can you see the disk with dos fdisk?


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Response Number 2
Name: Me
Date: May 11, 2003 at 05:36:50 Pacific
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FDISK cant see it, but when i boot xp , its there. can you please tell me y that is and how do i correct this prob.

thanks


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Response Number 3
Name: bitbyte
Date: May 11, 2003 at 05:50:58 Pacific
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which fileformat is on the harddisk?

dos cant read ntfs

if you have dos 6.22 or before it also cant read fat32


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Response Number 4
Name: ME
Date: May 11, 2003 at 08:28:15 Pacific
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both drives are fat32

how can i upgrade to a newer version of dos just in case.

but i installed windows 98, and it cant read the second drive OR the cdrom drive


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Response Number 5
Name: bitbyte
Date: May 11, 2003 at 10:08:58 Pacific
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does bios detect the second harddisk?



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Response Number 6
Name: me
Date: May 11, 2003 at 13:09:47 Pacific
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yes, it does.


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