Re: Missing Drive
From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 08/29/04
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Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:40:31 -0700
Brian wrote:
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> Ok now after leaving the pc off all night the drive is back (multiple
> reboots last night did nothing) and when I look in Disk Management it
> shows the drive under LAYOUT as Simple (all others are
> Partition).....Type says Dynamic (all others are Basic)....File System
> as NTFS very weird (all others FAT32)....and Status says Healthy (At
> Risk) Obviously I am backing everything up onto another HEALTHY
> drive....but is there anything I can do to fix this situation?I guess
> the only way to go from NTFS to FAT32 would be to format the drive?
It sounds like your partition is messed up. Get the data off, delete all
partitions on the drive, create new ones, and format it using whichever
file system you want. No, you can't go from NTFS to FAT32; just the
other way round.
Malke
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