k recently i installed a new hard drive and it worked but with my other 40 gb hard drive i cannot open... and i have a lot of files in there which i want to keep.. soo i tried using the command prompt to convert it to NTSF and it would say " cannot convert raw"..something like that.. So now what do i do ???
'Raw" means unpartitioned/unformatted. It is the way Windows likes to get a harddisk, all virginal :^) So, if you have a drive that is not empty and has files on it, I don't know what you're doing there... I CAN advise you not to convert HDs to NTFS - not a good plan. Do you require Local Security, Quotas, Encryption or other specific NTFS features? If a HD is partitioned FAT32, leave it FAT32 (40GB HD doesn't need NTFS). WinXP can read FAT32 just fine. If your PC has an existing Primary Master HD, with existing bootfiles and OS, you could introduce a second HD as Master on the Secondary controller. If you have an optical drive (burner) there, make it Slave on the Secondary controller. Hope this is helpful, or you must explain your problem more... Regards
umm..k when i try to enter the drive it only gives me the option of formating it...which i do not want to do. Does anyone else know a way to convert it or make it work..cause i have lots of stuff in that drive which i want
