Second hard drive (FAT32)

I just finished loading XP on my 20g mail harddrive. I
also have a 100g harddrive installed formatted fat32 with
aton of data that I now find the XP operating sys. dosen't
see. How do I solve this without reformatting and loosing
the data on my second drive? HELP!!!!

Stan

 

Stan

AFAIK XP NTFS can see a FAT32 volume just fine and exchange data with it.

If you have the FAT32 files encrypted or compressed, then it won't though. There may also be a cluster size problem but I'll have to admit I don't know much about that. Perhaps someone will drop in that does.

Here's a link to a little reading about using fat32 and ntfs on the same machine.

And here's some reading on the

cluster issue.

HTH

 

Is the second drive recognized by BIOS? Are you sure the jumper settings on the second drive are appropriate for its connection (primary slave, secondary master, or secondary slave)?
Is the drive shown when you right-click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management?
Is the Logical Disk Management service enabled?

and one more...........

Have you hidden the drive with a tweaker?