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Can't access hard drive in WinXP

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Name: keen88
Date: January 14, 2003 at 17:02:14 Pacific
OS: Win Xp Pro
CPU/Ram: AMD 400mhz, 256 mb RAM
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Hi,
I have a new hard drive, which I installed under Win 98 SE. The drive worked ok, and I copied data to it.

I recently formatted my original hard drive and installed Win XP Pro. When trying to access the information on the new Seagate ST380021A drive, I can't access it in Windows.

It auto-detects in the BIOS, and also appears in Device Manager, but not in Windows Explorer, i.e. I can't get access to the data on it.

I've tried putting the drive in another machine, but I have the same problem.


Any help grately appreciated.


Thanks.




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Response Number 1
Name: hellsbellsforyou
Date: January 14, 2003 at 21:47:38 Pacific
Reply:

Did you use ECD protection? if you did I'm out of Q\A's.


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Response Number 2
Name: ben rogers
Date: January 15, 2003 at 07:10:38 Pacific
Reply:

Did you format the drive that you installed XP on to NTFS cos under 98 it would have been FAT32 and NTFS partitions cannot interact with FAT32 ones. You'll either have to format the boot drive to FAT32 or the data drive to NTFS.


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Response Number 3
Name: Bob
Date: January 15, 2003 at 09:57:59 Pacific
Reply:

Ben, that is not true. I have a mixture of both FAT32 and NTFS partitions (even on the same drive) and it works fine. The operating system could care less about the combination of the two.


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Response Number 4
Name: ben rogers
Date: January 15, 2003 at 12:55:08 Pacific
Reply:

No, it is true. It doesn't work. I have tried it many times before.


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Response Number 5
Name: keen88
Date: January 15, 2003 at 15:54:46 Pacific
Reply:

I'm almost certain that both drives as FAT32 (as FAT (16/32) is what I'm only used to), so I chose that.


If it isn't, how can I find out?


Thanks.


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