Formated drive seen as unformatted!

[Guest_imported]

I recently formated my master hard drive and put Windows 2000 Professional. I formatted it in FAT32. I have a slave drive that I mainly keep important files on that is formatted in FAT32 as well. I am unable to access my slave drive because it says that is unformatted but it actually is. I'm not sure if I discribed my problem very well but I really hope somebody can help me out with this. I have run out of ideas to get the slave to work. HELP PLEASE!! Thanks

 

[GoLdFiNgeR]

im not sure with windows 2000, but your slave may need to be ntfs, not fat32, im sure someone else knows for sure, also are your jumpers correct on the hard drive, set to slave obviously,

hope this helps some at least

 

[wolluf]

win2k supports fat32 as well as ntfs - but sometimes has a problem when the partition has been formatted by another operating system. Can you access your slave drive if you boot from a win98 boot floppy? One thing you could try is disconnecting & reconnecting the slave drive - when win2k detects it on reconnection you may find you can read it. If you can't get win2k to see the drive, and you can see it from win98 boot floppy, I'd suggest using xcopy to copy the files to you master drive, then back in win2k and format it there and put the files back.