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Corrupt partition??

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Rasnowl

Junior Member
Hey, I just got my new WD1000JB today (mmmm) and I was installing Linux and WinXP...I also have a 10gig backup drive, and during the process, I guess that got corrupted. Whenever I go into WinXP I try opening that drive letter and it says "drive unformatted, format now?" This drive was previously correctly formatted, and functioning as a FAT32 drive.

I didn't do anything intentional to the drive; AFAIK all my installation processes left it alone. However, I'm not sure how Linux mounts drives yet (i'm a Linux n00b). Could that have corrupted it? Is there some way of fixing it? I really need your help, thanks a lot!!
 
which drive is "corrupted" and which drive were you installing the OS'es on? how many partitions are on each?
 
WD1000JB:
C (WinXP installed, 7.5 gig, NTFS)
E (Data, 80 gig, NTFS)
Linux partitions (250mb swap and 7.5 gig)

Quantum - D (documents, 10 gig, FAT32) <-Corrupted
 
UPDATE: For some reason I was checkin up stuff in DOS...and I tried accessing the drive, it works perfectly!! In DOS, that is...but since my drives are NTFS they aren't recognized, therefore I cannot copy them over properly :-/

If the drive is working in DOS, then what's going wrong with WinXP?? I suppose it would be easier to fix this little glitch than copying/reformatting and stuff.
 
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