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Win Xp doesn't assign a drive letter to my FAT32 drive letter (can't use convert.exe)

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Prodigy^

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just installed windows xp on a fresh new harddrive, and i formatted it with NTFS. went fine, installation completed, but I have all my stuff on a FAT32 harddrive (from win98se). it shows up in the BIOS just fine, and windows SEES the drive, but it is in FAT32 and so it isn't assigned a drive letter, and doesn't show up in My computer. i can find it in Control Panel / administration / drive handling (or what it's called in english), and there I can find the drive...it says it's formatted in an unknown format.

how do I convert it to a readable (NTFS preferably) format so I can find all my files? KINDA annoying not having access to any of my drivers, programs, etc :/

thanks a lot
 
XP *should* be seeing it just fine as a FAT32 volume. Is it actually saying unknown format, or 'foreign disk'. If it's showing as a foreign disk you need to import them into the system (right click on the drive row in Disk Administrator). If it's showing as unknown format, something is wrong (different drive geometry with the xp driver?). In that case you'll probably need to copy the files off somewhere else, format the drive, and then restore them (copy them off from what OS you have that can read the drive)

Bill
 
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