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My portable hard drive is working properly under Windows 98, but when I upgrade to Windows XP, the portable hard drive is not recognised?

April 26, 2017portable properly recognised upgrade Windows Windows XP working

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My portable hard drive is working properly under Windows 98, but when I upgrade to Windows XP, the portable hard drive is not recognised?

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In Windows 98, the hard drive ( inside the PC ) and the portable hard drive were automatically formatted as FAT32, when you upgrade your PC to Windows XP, the installation programme will format the hard drive ( inside the PC ) as NTFS by default, which will cause the portable hard drive not be recongised.