re: Format XP, and turn NTFS to FAT32
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 at 6:52 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by L Heligas
(4 messages posted)
That happened to me, too. I tried to re-install XP on my primary hard drive and
somehow, it quick wiped the slave drive. And that's where I had all my frickin'
data. I can see the data, but I can't seem to transfer it back. Do you have any
idea of any programs I could use to retrieve the data?
On Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 10:43 am, Zeb wrote:
>I almost always do it the old fashioned way. I boot with a W98 Boot Floppy. I then
>run Fdisk. It can't read NTFS partitions, but it shows them as "Unknown." Just use
>Fdisk to delete the partition. Then use Fdisk to recreat a new partition and format
>it. when Fdisk is started, it will present a message about finding a disk larger
>than "whatever." Answer, "Yes," and it will use FAT32. I don't use the procedures
>on the XP CD, because the first time I tried it, selecting only my C-Partition for
>action, it formatted the entire drive, killing the two additional partitions and
>all data on the drive.
>Was that an MS "Feature" or something I did? I have no reason to suspect what I
did.
>My rule is that MS almost never lets you do exactly what you want to do... or what
>you think you're doing. Excessive, maybe. But there you go.
>
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