hi, i installd my computer from win98 to nt 4.0 sp6a today. and all works exept all the other harddisks, not c: that i formated to ntfs under installation. all other disks is in fat and nt. nt says that the disks in not accessible. in disktools is the disks unknown. i test to put in an other (ide) ntfs disk to the computer and it works. the disk is ide and scsi, 7 disks. all disks is "in my computer" like icons, but no access. so my question is wat can be wrong? the computer is an videoeditor with a videocard that works best in 98 and nt (old drivers and card). and i have 98 in it before but it ctash som time... so i want to try nt. i can't format the other disks because ist a lot och video on them, over 300 GB. please help /ajla

Sounds like those "disks" are fat32. NT can't read fat32 without some help from the fat32 reader/writer from sysinternals.com Otherwise you need to backup your data and format the drives as ntfs. Then restore your data. Just as a suggestion but W2K supports both fat32 and ntfs.

tnx, i test to install w2k on the computer, and all drivers work and the videocard too! (i shouldent) not perfect but i will try this w2k. i have try out winxp, but that dident work at all. mabye 2k is better? thanks, /ajla

You don't have to reformat to get the fat32 disks to NTFS. WinNT and beyond have a convert utility, done in MANY times. "start/run" type in "convert d: /fs:ntfs" (without the quote marks)

Martin NT as in NT4 could not read fat32 file system without 3rd party software. You can't convert what you can't read. If he had stuck with NT he would have had to reformat. FYI

Wanderer, I have done it numerous times. I have a network of 14 desktops, each was originally 2gig C as NTFS and 38 gig D as fat32. Converted D on each of them. NO problems!

You must be confusing W2K for NT. NT has never supported fat32 and was written BEFORE fat32 existed. NT won't even see a fat32 partition [except as damaged] without a 3rd party fat32 reader like what is found here. http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/fat32.shtml Or you can use Partition Magic but there is absolutely no way using NT4 convert utility that you could convert a fat32 to ntfs. Simply can't happen. So if you don't want to take my word for it then how about celebs Mark and Bryce? Why else would they be making money on a utility that would not be required if NT could read fat32?