Acessing FAT disks

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From: dglock (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 09:02:41 -0800

do you have the jumpers on the drives set correctly?
don

>-----Original Message-----
>I recently replaced my old hard disk with a new one. At
the same time I
>upgraded to Windows XP. I installed XP to the new disk
without any
>problems. I then hooked up my old disk so I could
transfer files to the new
>one. I have a great number of music files and
pictures. The old disk was
>formatted FAT while I used NTFS for the new one (I don't
know if this could
>be part of the problem)
>When I booted up I could not see the old disk. I went
under control panel,
>administrative tools, computer management, disk
management. the two disks
>show up as Disk 0 and Disk 1. When I right click on
disk 1 and try to
>assign a drive letter, that option is grayed out.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Doug Thornton
>
>
>.
>

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