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"The disk in drive D is not formatted" after upgrade to Windows XP
Hi,
I have two hard-drives connected to my computer. The first (0) has a single partition The second (1) has a primary partition and an extended partition containing two logical drives. The first logical drive on the second disk is a FAT32 drive which I know as drive D. I used to have Windows 98 installed on the first drive on a FAT32 partition and I could use drive D no problem. I just installed Windows XP onto the first drive and reformatted the first drive to NTFS. I did not touch drive D. Now drive D is not accessible. Using the Disk Management admin tool I can see the partitions and it has correctly assigned drive D, but when I try to use drive D, either from windows explorer or using the Disk Management tool it claims that "The disk in drive D is not formatted. Do you want to format it now". To check, I rebooted from the Windows 98 CD and the content of drive D appears fine (although it now appears as drive C; presumably because the old drive C (disk 0) is NTFS and hence not readable by Windows 98). Help. How can I get Windows XP to see the content of drive D? Thanks, Huw |
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