[Ham-Computers] WINDOWS XP doesn't see HD

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

As I said earlier, I run NT5SP4 and all that I know about XP is that after 
fighting with it for two months on one of our workstations, I cut its CD up and 
tried to use it for shim stock (didn't work there either).  But that doesn't 
seem logical.  Until late last year, I was running a mix of NTFS formated RAID 
0 EIDE drives, FAT32 formated stand alone EIDE drives, a FAT32 formated SCSI 
drive and two FAT16 formated SCSI drives.  And everything from Windows Explorer 
back to PFM (a 16 bit DOS utility last revised in 1990) was happy and could 
read and write to all of the drives.  Come to think of it, GREP.COM from 1987 
also worked just fine.  Besides that, if XP could only read an NTFS formatted 
hard drive, it couldn't read any CD or DVD or floppy or Flash Drive.

BTW, does anyone know whether there was ever a later version of PFM than 
2.28?  Or of GREP or DIRMATCH?

In a message dated 2/6/2005 12:03:06 AM Central Standard Time, nj9k at wi.rr.com 
writes: 
> Do you remember how you formatted the "OLD" primary, now secondary?
> Is the new primary formatted as NTFS? NTFS is "NOT COMPATIBLE"
> with FAT32 and cannot read FAT32. So DOS and BIOS AND XP says it
> there but XP's NTFS formatted op system cannot read it!

Robert Downs - Houston
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