Ok here goes,

I'm trying to put an old 40GB drive into my mp3 player (Neo Car Jukebox). It was originally my slave drive on the PC but I'm not really using it, so I though it would be better than the 20GB drive in there.

So I transferred 30GB of mp3s onto it and put it in the mp3 player which said "no FAT16 or FAT32 partition detected"

I then did My Computer-Manage-Disk Management and saw that the drive had something like NTFS as the file system, not FAT32. I deleted everything from it and tried to reformat it, but it wouldn't let me change the file system to FAT32.

Then some idiot pressed a button that said delete partition

Now winXP doesn't even seem to see the drive

Help!

 

Even with no partition Windows should see the drive: it should show up on Windows Exploder as a drive letter, but any attempt to look at it results in an error. If you can see the drive, right click and choose "Format". If it's not even showing up then I recommend Partition Magic.


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If your running xp pro and the drive is still connected to your system then go to the control panel, administritive tools, computer managment, storage, then disk managment. Simply reformat the drive to fat 32 there and then windows will allow you to access it aftr a restart. Then copy all your desired illegal mp3's onto it and your done.

All assuming your running xp pro though.

Let us know how you get on.

 

Or, download a Win98SE bootdisk here:

http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml

Boot from it, and format the disk from 'DOS'.