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Ok this morning I installed Windows XP. I had Windows 98S.E. on my slave I formatted but now it`s not there. I've restarted twice now and still nothing it only shows I have one hard drive.
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It`s not there anymore
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When you boot does the post or bios show u have 2 drives? Or have you formatted the drive into fat32, ntfs, etc?
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It shows two but when I go to my computer there is only one. How can I format it in ntfs.
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open up a command prompt and type convert c:/fs:ntfs
or more details here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/russel/october01.asp
or checkout this thread: http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58235
or more details here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/columns/russel/october01.asp
or checkout this thread: http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58235
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My master hard drive is already run with NTFS. But my computer will not show my Slave hard drive.
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that slave wouldn't be formatted in fat32 would it?
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Easy fix, this is most likely you're 2 HD is still foriegn to XP, do this :
- Right click on My computer.
- Choose Manage.
- Click on Disk Management.
And see what it detects, if you "FIND" your 2nd HD, but with a yellow arrow on it, click on it and import it .. then format it from there, pretty easy to you and so friendly too ..
- Right click on My computer.
- Choose Manage.
- Click on Disk Management.
And see what it detects, if you "FIND" your 2nd HD, but with a yellow arrow on it, click on it and import it .. then format it from there, pretty easy to you and so friendly too ..
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Are you trying to cause him to lose W98? FORMAT will wipe the drive. W98 is not compatible with the NTFS format. It will only work with FAT.
If you formatted your slave AFTER you had W98SE on there, then it will not be there because you wiped the drive clean.
If you only formatted your master, and the slave was left alone, then XP/2000 should be able to at least see the drive.
Which is it?
If you formatted your slave AFTER you had W98SE on there, then it will not be there because you wiped the drive clean.
If you only formatted your master, and the slave was left alone, then XP/2000 should be able to at least see the drive.
Which is it?
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Thats the thing I don't want nothing there. All I want it for is movies and MP3s thats all.
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Thanks Pacino. I did like you said and there it was, but there was no yellow there it just showed it there and instead of having a Blue fill line it had a black one. Thanks a alot man.
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You welcome dude 
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NTFS doesn't like FAT32 at all, so thats your prob!
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lennytiger said:NTFS doesn't like FAT32 at all, so thats your prob!
Where do you get that idea from?
It's true that NTFS is not backwards compatible with FAT32, in that a FAT32 system, such as windows 98, cannot see the NTFS file system. But an NTFS system, such as 2K or XP can see and use FAT32 drives with no problem at all.
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