Close... Too Close

[filkertom]

I've been having more and more problems with my main external hard drive lately. Today, it took about ten minutes for my computer to recognize it. So I hied off to Best Buy, which has a Seagate 500 GB external drive on sale for $119.99, and I'm copying like crazy. There have been a few hosed and corrupted files, but nothing at all vital. I've got almost everything on DVD anyway, but I'll probably make extra copies just in case.

I also have to do a full hard drive wipe and reinstall on a Gateway laptop I got for a song (almost literally). It's all Vista 'n' stuff, and I'm going to make it an XP machine.

Any tech woes or triumphs on your end?

ETA: Oh crap. I think a lot of stuff might be hosed, on multiple machines. Not related, just all at the same time. It's gonna be a long night.

Comments

[archiver-tim.livejournal.com]

I bought a couple of external drives recently that my Windows ME recognize, but won't assign them a drive letter. I think it is becasue they are formated NTFS, while the Windows ME wants to see FAT or FAT32 drives.

One is portable enough that hopefully someone at ConClave can help me.

-Ryan

[sethb.livejournal.com]

Reformat them FAT32.

[hms42]

If they are formated as NTFS, you will have to refdisk the drives to FAT32. Only problem is that you will have to make partitions of about 120gb (I know the number is actually higher). Windows 9x (which include ME) only can read FAT and FAT32 partitions.

Harold S.