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ceri sheeran · 01-07-2007, 02:06 PM

Hi,

The WIN ME hard drive in the old computer is probably using A FAT32 file system. It will not recognise the NTFS file system hard drive with your XP installation properly. Hence it will try and format the drive.

You could convert the drive using Parition Magic from NTFS to FAT32. Acronis Disk Director should be able to do the same.

There are free and shareware partition managemnt programs Partition Logic and Ranish.

If the data is critical you should back it up before trying any conversion from FAT32 to NTFS

hth

Ceri

01-07-2007, 02:06 PM	#2 (permalink)
ceri sheeran Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 285 OS: WINXP	Hi, The WIN ME hard drive in the old computer is probably using A FAT32 file system. It will not recognise the NTFS file system hard drive with your XP installation properly. Hence it will try and format the drive. You could convert the drive using Parition Magic from NTFS to FAT32. Acronis Disk Director should be able to do the same. There are free and shareware partition managemnt programs Partition Logic and Ranish. If the data is critical you should back it up before trying any conversion from FAT32 to NTFS hth Ceri Last edited by ceri sheeran; 01-07-2007 at 02:09 PM.