Ntfs & Fat32

[[XC] Hicks121]

Ok, one of my customers mobos died. Replace it & had to hook up his HD to my rig to salvage the files.

The problem is I cant view his hd in My Computer. Shows up in device mgr & bios. His HD is formatted in FAT32 & mine is NTFS. So is this the problem of why i cant see the drive. Is there a way to get his files off if this is the issue?

Any suggestions are great!!

I did change the jumpers too. These are both ide drives, his is a 160g & mine an 80g.

Thanks,

Hicks:shrug:

[fart_plume]

goto my computer, right click, then manage, then goto storage, look there to see if the drive is active.

[twilyth]

This has happened to me a couple times and I never figured out the cause (or I've forgotten). But I agree with FP - should show up in storage manager. Will probably tell you it is an unknown partition. GetDataBack for NTFS/FAT32 (2 dif. pgms) should get all of the data back for you although you might have to sift through a few thousand generated directory names depending on whether there was any corruption.

[loonym]

Yeah I agree, GetDataBack is the chits man. It's saved my bacon more than once.

[[XC] Hicks121]

I can see it in storage mgr, but it has no drive letter associated with, the hd is good, will start to boot to xp on his rig, but since it has a different chipset drivers & whatnot, it wont boot up fully.

Im wondering if it has to do with it being fat32? Or is there a way to assign a drive letter to it on my rig?

[Movieman]

Hicks121;3043778']I can see it in storage mgr, but it has no drive letter associated with, the hd is good, will start to boot to xp on his rig, but since it has a different chipset drivers & whatnot, it wont boot up fully.

Im wondering if it has to do with it being fat32? Or is there a way to assign a drive letter to it on my rig?

FAT32 isn't the issue. I have had mixed NTFS and FAT 32 drives on one system with no problems.
It's something else and can I ask; Is it jumpered correctly?
Is the cable good?
Are the cables pressed all the way in?

[[XC] Hicks121]

Jumpers are good, cables, tried 2 different ones(brand new), cables in all the way. in storage mgr it shows up active, as well as the bios sees it too.

You know, when i tried to boot up his computer to see if it worked, some Roxio program was on after the bios boot screen before the windows load, like a program like system restore....cant remember the name if it for the life of me.

Just thowing out everything I know about it, im no wiz bar far.

Thanks guys!

[xoqolatl]

To launch Storage manager the easy way, go to start menu -> run -> diskmgmt.msc
Right click on the partition you want to change, select "Change drive letter and paths"
This is on Vista though, XP may differ a bit butshould have the same functionality AFAIK.

[IanB]

+1 to xoqolatl

Storage Manager will show you the raw drives and partitions, but you can't access data in Windows until there's a drive letter, and that's the way to set it (XP too). If the disk structure is intact that should allow you access.

Encourage your user to use NTFS partitions in future, BTW. They are much more robust, allow for user and file security as well as encryption/compression, and don't suffer from a 4GB file size limit.

[[XC] riptide]

Ya. Go to storage manger and assign drive. ALSO. Occasionaly the registry has fubared a driver letter. Use a random one like X or Y. Sometimes F/G/H might be fubared with heavy use of USB devices etc.

[Archetype450]

Hicks121;3043817']
You know, when i tried to boot up his computer to see if it worked, some Roxio program was on after the bios boot screen before the windows load, like a program like system restore....cant remember the name if it for the life of me.

Just thowing out everything I know about it, im no wiz bar far.

Thanks guys!

Roxio?? Could it be Raxco.... If I'm not mistaken, Raxco = PerfectDisk defragmentor.... When running before Windows load, it is defragmenting system/boot files, and it's a bad thing to shut the PC (or see the PC shut by itself) while performing this.....