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Hey.... i need help with my external hardrive i recently had my hardrive on my computer break yea it click clicked and went out haha but i got a 40GB hardrive that i had extra and put in it i installed my windows xp on it but when i went to format the hardrive in setup with the xp disc it would only let me use ntfs i dont have a problem with this but my fat32 external hardrive wont work now is there any way i can convert my external and keep my data on it to a ntfs?
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Need help please
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danleff 
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Posted 18 April 2007 - 10:22 PM
IF the external hard drive is formatted fat 32, there should be no problem with XP finding and reading it. What type external enclosure is it?
What's interesting is that both your old internal and external hard drive seem to be having reading problems. Any chance that a virus affected both?
What's interesting is that both your old internal and external hard drive seem to be having reading problems. Any chance that a virus affected both?
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DJ-Bigggy
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Posted 24 April 2007 - 02:17 AM
A virus may have affected my external at one time im not sure but yea i have tried it one a couple different computers and they wont bring it up either im about to just throw the stupid thing in the garbage i kinda did love it though for extra storage it is a 100GB external :"(
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