How make XP (NTFS) read FAT32?

Can WINXP read a FAT32 drive?

After a machine crash, upgraded to a new macine, thinking I could take the old C: drive to transfer data to the new machine. The new machine, running XP is unable to read the old drive. What to do?
mahalo,
Ted Isaac

 

NTFS can read Fat 32, but not the other way around. How did you connect the drives? You will get more attention from people who can help you, if you post this in Hardware with specific detail.

Johanna

 

Replaced crashed machine with a new Dell running WinXP. I expected to slip drive in and use the old (valuable) data from the crashed machine. XP finds the drive, (configured to <cable position> but can't read it. Is there a way to set XP to read the FAT32 drive? I can't load WIN98 for dual boot, because I have only the OEM disk that won't load onto the XP machine, even if I knew how. Help, please.
TIinHI

 

XP should have no problem reading FAT32, if there is still something there to read.Try setting it up with XP drive as master and old as slave. Master would be connected to end of cable, old drive to middle. If you still can't access it, right click My Computer>manage and select disk management. If it's listed in lower right pane, right click it and see if initialize is an option. If so select that and try access again. If it doesn't appear in disk management, check device manager to see that it is enabled.

Disk management should also tell usage. (capacity, free space)

Hope this helps!