Storage harddrive unreadable after a partition 1

[Basil007]

Could someone please help me.....I have a 60gig harddrive which i just partitioned with partition magic 8, and an 120gig harddrive for storage. The second harddrive was installed some months ago with Windows Xp Pro. I decided to partition my main 60gig harddrive with W'Xp and W'98 to be able to play some older games. Once I had finally finished patitioning and installing all programms on both partitions, I could not get access to the storage harddrive, which has a complete backup of all personal and need files. I have noticed that W'98 runs a FAT32 filesystem, W'Xp runs a NTFS system, and the storage harddrive runs a RAW filesystem. The second harddrive is a dynamic drive. If i change it from a dynamic to a basic, can i read it and not loose any info, or with changing it wipe it's info. Also, can and how do i change it from a RAW to NTFS filesystem, will this make it readable?. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could someone help me with this problem.

 

[GrowingHaze]

Windows 98 cannot read a NTFS formatted partition. If you want to access your files from 98 you should convert your 120 gig to FAT32 along with your 40 gig if it isn't already. *disclaimer* converting from NTFS to FAT32 can corrupt and destroy your files permanently.

On the bright side, I have done NTFS to FAT32 with Partition Magic 8 and had no problems.

Good Luck

-Growing Haze

Gates giveth, Gates taketh away.

 

[Basil007]

Thanks Growing Haze for the info and your quick reply. But why won't WinXp pickup the harddrive, as it is the system that originally set it up to be used. And why is it's filesystem now RAW, and not NTFS. I am running both a FAT32(win98) and NTFS(winxp) together on one harddrive.