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joshualimm
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Posted: 19th Jan 2004 14:30
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Please help! I've bought a Seagate Barracuda 120GB hard disk, and used it as an external hard disk for my computer (XP). However, when I tried to use it on my dad's computer(ME), it says that the drive is not formated and I have to reformat the disk. Is there anyway around this? Cuz I've already saved 50+GB worth of documents on the disk. What should I do? Please help ASAP! Thanks!

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spooky
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Posted: 19th Jan 2004 15:00
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You have probably formatted on XP using NTFS file system. Win ME can not read this! Only Win 2000, NT and XP can read NTFS disks.

If you wanted to read it on both pc's you should have formatted using a filessytem common to both, line FAT32.

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TKF15H
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Posted: 19th Jan 2004 19:38
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Looks like you'll have to plug it back on your PC, then burn whatever you want to pass onto a CD. Or you could try running Linux Live CD to transfer stuff. Though, Linux doesn't have full NTFS support. Could mess up some stuff...

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the_winch
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Posted: 19th Jan 2004 22:06 Edited at: 19th Jan 2004 22:06
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Take the hd out of the winme machine and put it in the xp machine and just copy across the files you need.

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TKF15H
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Posted: 19th Jan 2004 23:35
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isn't there a little program for win98 that allows it to read NTFS?

Why do programmers always mix up Christmas and Halloween?
Because DEC 25 = OCT 31
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