sitaversion
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hello,
i have two drives in my system, a 40gig seagate formatted with NTFS with windows etc on it, and a 80gig western digital formatted with FAT32. i have recently lost access to my 80 gig. when i click on the drive letter in windows explorer it asks me if i want to format this drive. i have an older drive (a 30 gig IBM) that had a copy of windows 98 on it, i put it in and booted up windows 98 and it can see the 80 gig drive and all its files etc.
this has led to me to believe that it something in windows xp that it stopping the drive to be accessed, as i know that their are files on the disk and their appears to be nothing wrong with the actual drive itself. so the question is how do i get to see the drive again in windows xp with out the hasstle of re-installing or re-formatting the drive? (i've just installed windows xp on my machine, and it could see the drive no worries, but this problem just seems to have cropped up out of nowhere)
i have two drives in my system, a 40gig seagate formatted with NTFS with windows etc on it, and a 80gig western digital formatted with FAT32. i have recently lost access to my 80 gig. when i click on the drive letter in windows explorer it asks me if i want to format this drive. i have an older drive (a 30 gig IBM) that had a copy of windows 98 on it, i put it in and booted up windows 98 and it can see the 80 gig drive and all its files etc.
this has led to me to believe that it something in windows xp that it stopping the drive to be accessed, as i know that their are files on the disk and their appears to be nothing wrong with the actual drive itself. so the question is how do i get to see the drive again in windows xp with out the hasstle of re-installing or re-formatting the drive? (i've just installed windows xp on my machine, and it could see the drive no worries, but this problem just seems to have cropped up out of nowhere)