XP Home will not read Fat32, Fat12 and CDFS File systems
Clarke
I have a Windows XP Home SP1 PC that has stopped reading
Fat32,Fat12 and CDFS FIle Systems. It reads NTFS Good as
gold, the boot partition is NTFS.
This just happened all of a sudden. When you click on a
Fat32 partition, it tells you it is not formatted. When
you put in a Floppy Disk (Fat12) It also tells you it is
not formatted. When you put that disk in numerous other
machines it is fine, you boot off of the floppy disk, it
will boot into windows 95 (Disk is a win95 boot floppy)
then you can browse via DOS, the Fat 32 partitions.
With the CDFS (CDROMS) it just displays a blank screen in
windows explorer. When you turn off the ability of
Windows to use the cdrom drive as a cdwriter it then tells
you that the disk is not suitable for this PC. You turn
on the cdwriting capabilities and you cna copy data to the
cd and actually write it. ON the PC it comes up like
before as empty, but when you put the cd into another PC,
it is readable witht he data I just copied.
This is the weird bit, When you go into Administrative
Tools/COmputer Management/DIsk Management it shows all the
disks, including the cdrom and the FAT32 disks, it also
show how much data they are using and how much free space
they have.
I used Partition Magic 8 to create a brand new Fat32
partition at the end of the disk, it created it and let me
write to it in DOS, as soon as I went into XP Home, it
told me the drive needed to be formatted.
I thought of loading SP1 again, but I have no way of
actually getting it on the box. I cannot read CD's or
floppy disks, so I cannot load drivers for my Network
cards.
If anyone has any possible solutions they will be greatly
appreciated.
cquirke (MVP Win9x)
>I have a Windows XP Home SP1 PC that has stopped reading
>Fat32,Fat12 and CDFS FIle Systems. It reads NTFS Good as
>gold, the boot partition is NTFS.
>This just happened all of a sudden. When you click on a
>Fat32 partition, it tells you it is not formatted. When
>you put in a Floppy Disk (Fat12) It also tells you it is
>not formatted. When you put that disk in numerous other
>machines it is fine, you boot off of the floppy disk, it
>will boot into windows 95 (Disk is a win95 boot floppy)
>then you can browse via DOS, the Fat 32 partitions.
I'd suspect a security setting to "allow only NTFS" somewhere.
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CLarke
had never seen it. He suggested a couple of quick fixes,
but nothing worked. The last step was to do a repair
using the XP CD. That worked.
You boot from the XP CD and the first prompt says install,
or repair with the recovery console, go to the install,
then it goes through and detects your install and says do
u want to repair. Choose yes. It fixed mine, but I als
could not read from Cd's.
2 caveats. 1)Backup all your data, even though you should
not lose any data, you always should backup. 2)Have
drivers handy, it resets the OS back in Service packs and
Security patches.
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