extern hard drives

[jerry]

Doug Pollard wrote:
> jerry wrote:
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>> Doug Pollard wrote:
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>>> HI All,
>>>     I have a dual boot system with xp and ubuntu8.04  running.  I also 
>>> have two usb hard drives with media on them.  I formatted them with 
>>> gparted as fat 32 with the thought that I would be able to read with 
>>> ubuntu and xp.  Xp cannot see either drive. Does any one have any idea 
>>> why Xp can't see the drives.  Xp is using ntfs should it be able to see 
>>> and read fat 32 drives?? 
>>>                                                  Doug
>>>
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>>>     
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>> If XP cannot see the drives in My Computer try to go in  XP to Control 
>> Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management >Storage >Disk Management > 
>> locate external usb drive.Sometimes the drive letters get messed up and 
>> you have to manually assign a drive letter. Usually better to use the 
>> letter J or higher.
>> Hope this helps
>> Jerry
>>
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>    Jerry, Went back to XP and tried as you suggested and got one drive 
> to show up I have not yet tried to save anything to it .  Marked the 
> other drive as "M"  and looks ok in disk manager but does not show up in 
> My computer.  I think there is something wrong with the formating that 
> xp doesn't like???
>                                                                          
> Doug
>
> You might have to do a repair install, that way you should not lose personal data.
Jerry