Can't open file.....

[rena_chan]

2 harddrive which = 20GB & 80GB ( use window XP )
20GB is for system and is on FAT32 = C;\ drive
80GB is on NTFS and just for data = D:\ drive

before i reformat i still can read or open the file on D:\ drive..
but now after i reformat the C:\ drive to reinstall the window i can't read or open the file on D:\ drive although i still can browser D;\ drive

anyone know what happen to my D:\ drive??????

please reply as soon as possible coz my assignment is on D:\ drive......

[ZoomCities]

2 harddrive which = 20GB & 80GB ( use window XP )
20GB is for system and is on FAT32 = C;\ drive
80GB is on NTFS and just for data = D:\ drive

before i reformat i still can read or open the file on D:\ drive..
but now after i reformat the C:\ drive to reinstall the window i can't read or open the file on D:\ drive although i still can browser D;\ drive

anyone know what happen to my D:\ drive??????

please reply as soon as possible coz my assignment is on D:\ drive......

I just want to understand what you said, have you already re-installed windows when you tried to read D Drive again or are you reading it from DOS? What is your File System in your C Drive? When you try to browse D drive what can you see?

[DarkBlood]

C:\ is FAT32. If you try opening stuff in 98/95/3.1/3.0/3.2/DOS from the D:\ which is NTFS, you can't read it, as those OS' can only ready FAT or FAT32 volumes. HOWEVER, DOS' FDISK program can see the NTFS volume... weird huh? But it is quite handy if you want to make that drive back to FAT or FAT32 from NTFS.

XP, NT1+ as well as 2000 Windows versions can see NTFS Format drives btw. Unless you locked the drive* or made everything on it read-only, which would be strange.

*You can lock a disk on a macintosh rather easily by clicking the lock button in the upper left-hand part of the window. But when Windows tries to read anything, it'll make sure you know that the disk is locked and you cannot edit anything on that disk.

[ad-union.net]

It is possible this is a formatting error - The version of XP I used a while ago (without SP2 integrated) used to wipe the partition table blank, and rewrite it wrongly, thereby causing trememdous data loss with an OS re-install (even on an already perfecly good Win XP install, while re-installing)

I would recommend switching to XP with SP2 integrated, it does not seem to have this bug (pest?).

Or maybe pick a good server-class OS and be done with it... Windows Server 2003 seems a tad more stable than most...

Have fun.