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Thread ID: 57070 2005-04-23 00:32:00 Disk in drive D is not formatted. Format it now? Zac (7948) Press F1
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347718 2005-04-23 00:32:00 Hi
I have just upgraded to windows xp proffessional from 98se. Now when I try to access my D drive it comes up with the message:

The disk in drive D is not formatted. Format it now?

I was using it as a storage drive and would like very much to recover the files on it.
I know there have been problems with drives over 120gig but this is only an 80gig drive.
Xp and everything on c: works fine.

thank you 		Zac (7948)
347719 2005-04-23 00:59:00 What does Disk Management (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management) report? Does it list the drive as "Healthy" and formatted? FoxyMX (5)
347720 2005-04-23 01:38:00 Yes, it lists the following:

Volume: D:
Layout: Partition
Type: Basic
File System: (nothing in this column as opposed to c: which has fat32)
Capacity: 27.26GB
Free Space: 27.26GB
% Free: 100 %
Fault Tolerance: No
Overhead: 0 %

thanks 		Zac (7948)
347721 2005-04-23 01:44:00 Does it have D: listed as a logical drive? or a primary? Myth (110)
347722 2005-04-23 01:57:00 sorry, I may have made a mistake, I thought it was two drives, one 10gb and the other 30gb, but I think they must be partitions. Device manager only lists one disk drive, WD400BB-00DEA0, which upon looking on the net is a 40gb hard drive.

Both C: and D: are listed beside Disk 0 under the information I had in my last post. They both have a blue bar above them which i believe indicates thay are both primary partitions. (at the bottom of the window there is a small blue square with primary partion written next to it which I thought might be some sort of key)

thanks 		Zac (7948)
347723 2005-04-23 02:25:00 When you upgraded to XP, what partitioning and formatting did you (or the installer) do? If you told it tio use the "C" partition, it shouldn't have touched the "D" one. Have you still got a W98 boot floppy? Can you see any files on D: from DOS? (Probably not, if XP doesn't see any format, but worth a try). A Linux partitioner can change its type to FAT32 non-destructively. A "Live" CD version such as Knoppix would do this. Graham L (2)
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