Re: reading FAT32 drive in XP on NTFS main drive

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Sounds like a plan. Good luck and let us know the end of the story! If you
can see it on another PC, I wonder what is different on yours?
OMS

"John Stevens-Taylor" <john_r_taylor (dot) geo (at) yahoo (dot) com> wrote
in message news:43CC721A-38AA-431C-997D-9D9270B8109B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> still no joy, I've tried the jack plugs in every possible position, I dont
> think the hardware itself is faulty, it worked just before the upgrade (I
> know if it fails it has to fail at some time) and the drive manager is
> reporting it as 'Health (Active)' it just doesn;t have a drive letter!?
>
> I think I am going to have to hook it up to another PC and backup the data
> on that. then I can delete the partition and format from scratch.
>
> thanks for your input guys.
>
> John
>
> "John Stevens-Taylor" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed XP pro on an old machine and re-formatted my main
>> (C)
>> drive to NTFS. I also have an old drive used to store my photos documents
>> mp3s etc out of harms way which is formatted to FAT32 (ME legacy) .
>>
>> my problem is that although the system is reporting the drive as working
>> properly, and I can see it in the drive manager, I cannot see it under
>> 'My
>> Computer' and cannot access it to retreve the data from it.
>>
>> does anyone out there know of a way to persuade XP to read my drive, or
>> will
>> I have to take it out and connect it to a PC running under FAT32 to
>> recover
>> my files.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> John


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