NTFS and FAT32 drives

Xp Pro SP2
NTFS file system.
MSI 865 MB.

I tried to put in a couple older drives to check on whats in them.
They are FAT32 drives.
My computer hung from the get go on them. Booting up took for ever
and it didn't recognize them at all.

I seem to remember on XP being able to read and copy to FAT 32
drives.

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 06:23:58 +0000, John Johnson wrote:

Xp Pro SP2
NTFS file system.
MSI 865 MB.

I tried to put in a couple older drives to check on whats in them. They
are FAT32 drives.
My computer hung from the get go on them. Booting up took for ever and it
didn't recognize them at all.

I seem to remember on XP being able to read and copy to FAT 32 drives.


Sounds like a master/slave, power or ide cable problem when you
added the drive. Verify the FAT32 drives are set as slave, check the bios
is set to auto or if its a very old IDE drive you might need to enter the
cyls, track info manually.

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On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 06:23:58 +0000, John Johnson wrote:

Xp Pro SP2
NTFS file system.
MSI 865 MB.

I tried to put in a couple older drives to check on whats in them. They
are FAT32 drives.
My computer hung from the get go on them. Booting up took for ever and
it
didn't recognize them at all.

I seem to remember on XP being able to read and copy to FAT 32 drives.


Sounds like a master/slave, power or ide cable problem when you
added the drive. Verify the FAT32 drives are set as slave, check the bios
is set to auto or if its a very old IDE drive you might need to enter the
cyls, track info manually.

John:
If you're booting from the "older drives" in your XP environment, than it's
quite likely they won't boot. It's a relatively rare occurrence that a
transferred HD will boot in an XP system. Under these circumstances you
would need to run a Repair install on the drive in question.

If, on the other hand, you merely want to access the drive(s) for
informational purposes, then there should be no problem in booting with your
normal working drive and accessing the drive(s) in Windows Explorer or
whatever. You're correct that XP has no problem reading FAT32 volumes.

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