hard drive format: MBR
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Guest
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:27 am    Post subject: hard drive format: MBR Reply with quote
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
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Guest
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:27 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive format: MBR Reply with quote
EDIT: by "File format" I meant "partition style" - sorry for any
confusion.

Thanks
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Guest
Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 1:27 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive format: MBR Reply with quote
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
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Bob
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:34 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive format: MBR Reply with quote
<briansmccabe@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1131230423.568904.22260@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Quote:
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.
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Dixonian69
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 8:12 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive format: MBR Reply with quote
Could you enlighten us all!

How did 1 yr old fix computer?

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Dennis S.
I''m from Illinois. I hope I helped you. Good Luck.


"briansmccabe@gmail.com" wrote:

Quote:
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

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Sharon F
Guest
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 12:13 am    Post subject: Re: hard drive format: MBR Reply with quote
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:12:01 -0800, Dixonian69 wrote:

Quote:
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....

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Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
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