Drive letter missing
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What the heck is that OS "windows 98ME"? Mixed mode? 
You should get some disk partitioner (Partition magic, System Commander, Acronis or whatever you like) to access the drive at boottime, and either change the cluster size to 16K or convert it to NTFS. Your XP OS should be able to mount it under a letter.
You should get some disk partitioner (Partition magic, System Commander, Acronis or whatever you like) to access the drive at boottime, and either change the cluster size to 16K or convert it to NTFS. Your XP OS should be able to mount it under a letter.
Bill Davies
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gday Johnny yes the jumpers are set ok and are showing in the d/manager ,and in the xp managers even tells me what space i have left on the missing drive, thanxJohnny? said:
Bill Davies
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gday all many thanx for your help i now have , 2nd hard drive back by trying all your ideas i was able to get a drive letter to work,your a great bunch of guys and i hope the furum go's on fror everJohnny? said:
again many thanx .
Bill Davies said:
So what exactly was it that fixed your problem?
Excuse me for butting in but Windows Millenium (ME) uses FAT32X,although it can run on previously formatted ordinary FAT32 disks.And it can`t use NTFS..Installing it on a bare clean drive it`ll always format it in FAT32X!scarecrow said:What the heck is that OS "windows 98ME"? Mixed mode?
You should get some disk partitioner (Partition magic, System Commander, Acronis or whatever you like) to access the drive at boottime, and either change the cluster size to 16K or convert it to NTFS. Your XP OS should be able to mount it under a letter.
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Bill Davies
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gday i fixed the drive letter by changing the drive to dyamic and it let me give it a letter alls well and i now have my stuff all backNunyobiznes said:
again thanx for all your help agreat forum indeed keep up the great work you fella's do to help peole.
WOODY - It's getting ugly in here with all these BOLD and highlighted words being thrown about. Close this thread before it spirals out of control.
Yeah,of course I did! But he didn`t explain that he`d formatted his C drive with FAT32 then installing XP on it,with his 'missing' drive supposedly sporting WinME with either FAT32 (which he COULD read from XP),or FAT32X if it`s a `clean` Me install (which he could STILL read from his C: drive) Now we know NTFS 2 FAT is readable-FAT 2 NTFS not (unless by something like READNTFS or similar program).But we all know he didn`t have NTFS on his missing drive as Me doesn`t support it.It does however support a strange hybrid called FAT32X (M$ experimenting again).You were probably correct in your earlier post about the "non conventional cluster size" FAT32X is most certainly that..It can`t be read from DOS 6.22 or earlier!So that theory was out..Does that answer your question? I was just making a statement,that`s all.....scarecrow said:Did you care to read how this thread has started?
...gday can you help me i installed xp pro on a formatted drive C:...
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Nunyobiznes: I just learned how to bold out phrases just recently, sorry about that...
Plextorman: right, but since our friend IS using XP currently, his problem shouldn't be inability to access NTFS or FAT(32) volumes. Nonconventional cluster size sounds like the most convenient explanation.
Plextorman: right, but since our friend IS using XP currently, his problem shouldn't be inability to access NTFS or FAT(32) volumes. Nonconventional cluster size sounds like the most convenient explanation.
Yup,you may be right....scarecrow said:Nunyobiznes: I just learned how to bold out phrases just recently, sorry about that...
Plextorman: right, but since our friend IS using XP currently, his problem shouldn't be inability to access NTFS or FAT(32) volumes. Nonconventional cluster size sounds like the most convenient explanation.
Just busting balls. It seems like the Admins have had it kind of quiet around here for the last couple of days and we can't have them getting used to it.scarecrow said:Nunyobiznes: I just learned how to bold out phrases just recently, sorry about that...
