if you want to be absolutely safe, backup and reformat using XP. your version of Partition Magic might be too old to set the right flag bits on XP. otherwise, search on the Powerquest site.
Herb.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr E D F Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 9:32 AM Subject: Disk drives > Hi all, > > I have just put another drive into my PC -- a Samsung 65 Gb. I was running > out of space and needed to do something in a hurry. > > So: Instead of using fdisk, as I've always done in the past, I partitioned > the drive with Partition Magic which seemed to do the job in a flash. I > chose FAT32 over NTFS because I use WIN 98 as well as XP professional > (plug-in C: drives). > > Now: I have transferred about 5 Gb of scans (.JPG, .PSD, .TIF etc) to one > of the drives and all seems well. I can open files and copy them and work on > them. BUT ... when I look at the properties of the two partitions (G: and > H:) the file format is RAW. Now this has never happened before and this is > the first time I've added a drive to the PC since I installed XP at least a > year ago. What do the experts amongst us have to say about this? Shall I go > on, or stop now and reformat the drives? They seem to behave quite normally > and it may be that some id data in the FAT table may be telling XP that it's > 'RAW' when it's not. Could this be a Partition Magic glitch? > > Don > > _______________ > Dr E D F Williams > http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams > Author's Web Site and Photo Gallery > Updated: July 31, 2003 > > > >
