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by galehickey

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I purchased a pc with Windows 2K on the master and XP Pro on the slave...dual boot. When I boot from 2K I can see XP but not the other way. Booting from XP I cannot see 2K in My Computer. I went to Disk Management and the drive appears but right clicking on same will not give me an option to assign a drive letter. Have went to Device Manager and uninstalled 2K and booting XP windows will pick up 2K but the drive will not appear.Any help. Thanks.

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by klk

Check the file system format of the drives. Sounds to me like your XP drive is formatted in the Fat32 file system and 2K is NTFS. An NTFS formatted drive can see Fat32, but not vice-versa.

Just a thought...

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