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No FAT or FAT32 access
I have WinXP Home SP3 on one machine and find that I am no longer able
to access FAT32-formatted thumb drives or FAT-formatted floppies: I can read them on other systems, but this machine tells me they are unformatted. No anti-virus/internet security software is in operation when I try this. I've so seldom used floppies or FAT32-formatted media on this machine that a whole lot of changes will have taken place since it was able to read such media successfully. I insert a floppy that has been formatted on another machine. DIR A: from command prompt reports no recognizable file system. CHKDSK /F A: reports file system is FAT, no errors found. DIR A: reports no recognizable file system. FORMAT A: reports success. CHKDSK /F A: reports file system is FAT, no errors found. DIR A: reports no recognizable file system. Double-click on disk icon in My Computer reports disk is not formatted. RMB - Format reports Windows cannot complete format. CHKDSK /F A: reports file system is FAT, no errors found. DIR A: reports no recognizable file system. Take disk to another machine; CHKDSK /F A: reports that file system is FAT, no errors found. I copy files to that disk on that machine; success. Bring disk back to the problem computer; DIR A: reports no recognizable file system. Google found a reference to this (or a similar) problem at http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html I copied the i386 folder from the installation CD to C:, made the recommended changes to the registry, and ran sfc /scannow Nothing has changed as far as FAT-formatted media are concerned. Perce |
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