- hard drive format: MBR
- Posted by briansmccabe@gmail.com on November 5th, 2005
Hello -
My brother gave me a 120GB hard drive so I threw it in a spare
machine. The machine boots up fine, the hard drive is seen in the XP
Computer Management utility (start->run->compmgmt.msc), but it's not
recognized in Win Explorer. The properties seen in Computer Management
indicate its file format is "Master Boot Record." I have never seen
anything other than NTFS or FAT32 in this place before, so I don't know
what that means.
I am wondering if I am able to get this disc recognized by my machine
and be usable, or do I need to reformat to NTFS, and if so, how do I do
that? Computer Management typically gives that option in a right-click
menu, but it doesn't on this drive.
Thanks in advance -
CV
- Posted by briansmccabe@gmail.com on November 5th, 2005
EDIT: by "File format" I meant "partition style" - sorry for any
confusion.
Thanks
- Posted by briansmccabe@gmail.com on November 5th, 2005
Sorry, please disregard. My one-year-old got ahold of the
comptuer....again.
(translation: I found the solution and should have dug deeper before
posting).
Thanks
- Posted by Bob on November 6th, 2005
<briansmccabe@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131230423.568904.22260@g43g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
> Sorry, please disregard. My one-year-old got ahold of the
> comptuer....again.
>
> (translation: I found the solution and should have dug deeper before
> posting).
>
> Thanks
>
Meaning....he sat the 1yr old at the keyboard for a minute and the problem
was fixed........right Dad.......;-)
Bob S.
- Posted by Dixonian69 on November 6th, 2005
Could you enlighten us all!
How did 1 yr old fix computer?
--
Dennis S.
I''m from Illinois. I hope I helped you. Good Luck.
"briansmccabe@gmail.com" wrote:
> Sorry, please disregard. My one-year-old got ahold of the
> comptuer....again.
>
> (translation: I found the solution and should have dug deeper before
> posting).
>
> Thanks
>
>
- Posted by Sharon F on November 6th, 2005
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:12:01 -0800, Dixonian69 wrote:
> Could you enlighten us all!
>
> How did 1 yr old fix computer?
I thought he meant that the manner of posting - a bit here and there (each
post progressing through the original problem) was due to juggling a
keyboard and a one year old. BTDT and those 3 posts are a good written
description of the experience....
--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
