External HDD WIN7 Formatted XP can't read it...


  1. Mintladd
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    External HDD WIN7 Formatted XP can't read it...


    Hi

    Please accept my appologies if this is a known and solved issue that I haven't found yet.

    I formatted my Western Digital 500GB My Book with Windows 7 RC and copied all my data across my network from my mac's external HDD. I'm sure I formatted it in NTFS and not the new Windows7 FAT32 replacement.

    I needed to acces the files at work so brought the My Book into work.
    I can't get my work XP laptop to see the partitions on the My Book -- it sees them in Disk Manager as Healthy (Unknown Partition) :-(

    My work Vista64 machine sees similar in Disk Manager too.

    I tried to find solutions on the web but only found people having problems reading XP formatted on Windows7.

    Any help or links to solved similar problem gratefully accepted.
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  3. logicearth
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    Is the drive accessible on the windows 7 machine still?
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