Q: I finally got XP to work during installation and said it was formatting the disk and the only option was NTFS what I thought was bad, but I went ahead because there was no other option. Before I put all my files I needed on my d: drive in XP, and now when I click xp tells me nothing is there, but I know that they are there, they are lost forever? Hope not. Thanks
Re:Probably gone. Sometimes XP doesn't recognize a drive right away and you need to go into Computer Management and enable the drive, but if its showing up in my computer correctly, with the drive size correct, and its saying its all free, you lost it all.
I don't know what caused it, but XP did this to me once. I have reinstalled windows by formating just one drive many times just fine, but this last time it decided to format both drives. I think my reason is that it decided to switch D to C, so when I installed windows to D, it put boot information on C and formatted it anyways.
Re:D: is a seperate drive of teh fat32 variety. I just copy and pasted the files i needed from my c: before I reformated C:
Re:Is D: drive a separate slave drive or a partition? How did you do the copying? Is D:\ FAT 32 or NTFS?
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