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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on July 01, 2003, 09:40:04 pm

Title: XP fat32... thing
Post by: Bobboau on July 01, 2003, 09:40:04 pm

my new computer just arived and I am putting in the old (FAT32) HD, the problem, when it boots up it does not know what to do with the new HD, you can imagine the scare I go when I tryed to open the HD with five years of FS and art and 11GB of DLed... stuff... and it asked me if I wanted to format it :eek:
so I am wondering why it is acting bad
as I typed this I recall that the other drive didn't seem to have any jumper settings, this is probly the reason, but I will post anyway, someone tell me if this sounds like the problem

Title: XP fat32... thing
Post by: Kamikaze on July 01, 2003, 10:11:46 pm

Win 2k tried to do that to me when I had any service pack installed, at first I .thought win 2k didn't like FAT.... but it happened to me again on NTFS (2 partitions didn't register with 2k and it tried to format one). I suspect it's the same problem with XP... hmmmm

Title: XP fat32... thing
Post by: Xelion on July 01, 2003, 10:25:27 pm

I need to know more before addressing a proper answer to the issue!

Hard Drive Size?
Clusters Size?


here are some Microsoft Support Links that might help...;)


This might help first (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463)
Query Links (http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?Catalog=LCID%3D1033%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&Product=&KeywordType=ANY&Titles=false&numDays=&maxResults=25&withinResults=false&Queryl=XP+Fat32&Query=XP+Fat32&QuerySource=gsfxSearch_Query&srchExtraQry=)

Title: XP fat32... thing
Post by: Whitelight on July 02, 2003, 12:02:22 am

Are you using a controller card, i`m thinking yes, since you stated the pc was new.

As far as I know, master and slave jumper settings won`t do this kind of thing, but i maybe wrong so don`t quote me on that.

Title: XP fat32... thing
Post by: Bobboau on July 02, 2003, 12:02:25 am

I was right, it was the jumpers, i fixed that problem.
now I need to figure why it isn't recognising any perifrials
if I plug anything (such as joy stick, scanner, printer) it doesn't seem to realise there is something new there

Title: XP fat32... thing
Post by: Whitelight on July 02, 2003, 12:06:23 am

I think i`ll let some other lad answer you this time, as I was wrong:nervous:

Title: XP fat32... thing
Post by: Xelion on July 02, 2003, 02:17:27 am

As was I but I don't know a solution to what your trying to find...sorry :rolleyes: