ntfs vs fat 32 [Drive not recognized]

I currently am running Win XP on NTFS but I cant get it to recognize my second drive. it is there in bios & device manager as well as disk management dut it does not show a drive letter & I cannot add one.

I was going to put Win98 on to see if it would recognize the drive so I can retrieve the data from it but f-disk shows my 80 GB drive as 10 GB. What will happen if I delete the partition & re-format fat 32. Will I be able to recognize an NTFS drive to remove the files on it?

 

Win98 will NOT see the NTFS drive.
Did your 2nd hdd work before in this comp ? If so what did you do last befor problem showed up?

[What will happen if I delete the partition & re-format fat 32] what partition ? Do not do it!

Are you talking about 2 different hdd's or 1 hdd with 2 partitions ?

 

Ntfs vs Fat 32

Hi,

This drive has been in the same computer for 2 & 1/2 years. I accidentally wiped it out last year & it has taken me a year to get the info back plus new documents not to mention pictures. it is a 30 GB drive & I was formatting an 80GB drive. is there a way to attach a word document showing some screenshots of what I am up against?

Thanx

 

Yes you can but I do not know how to make screen shots or where to post. Hope someone else will tell us how.

Still not clear - remember we know not a think about your comp but what you post, if we make a guess it will likely be wrong. My guess would be the 80g hdd that you formated is the XP hdd and you reinstall XP ?
1) what drive has the OS ?
2) number of partitions on each hdd ?
IF you reinstall XP , search the web for "take+ownership+of+drive "

 

ntfs vs fat 32

I just wanted to let you know so you can add this to your knowledge database.

I had previously had Norton system works 2006 installed on my hard drive before formatting & after I formatted the 2nd drive was being protected from access by norton go-back. I re-installed Norton system works & every thig came back on-line.

I just had to re-adjust the drive letters using disk management.

Thanks for all the help

BTMNJ

 

Thanks for posting back to let us know the fix. Will try to remember but my gray matter sometimes does not hold the info.

 

ntfs vs fat 32

I hear you loud and clear on that one & that is why God created the computer so us dummies could create a file to store such info.

 

And when required, the computer goes belly up