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NTFS failure
Name: JaG Date: April 25, 2003 at 02:28:20 Pacific OS: WindowsXP CPU/Ram: PIII 450 240MB
Comment:
PC hung and wouldn't reboot. After much messing around and reinstalling XP on my second HD I see that my NTFS disk is unreadable. It is also reporting itself as a FAT disk and so none of the usual utilities appear to be working. I have tried the Recovery Console with no success. Any ideas?
Name: kjan Date: April 25, 2003 at 05:14:55 Pacific
Reply:
both disks need to be fat 32 to 'read' each other
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Response Number 2
Name: Bob Date: April 25, 2003 at 08:56:28 Pacific
Reply:
Both disks DO NOT need to be FAT32 to read each other. Disks don't read each other, the operating system does. And the operating system has no problems reading different type of partitions in the same system.
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