Windows 2000 Pro. can't see FAT32 files on slave

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I have installed a removable drive bay. Drive 2 for this bay is 40GB
partioned equally as C: with full W2K and Office XP and D: with full
W2K and Office 2000. Dual boot works fine. Either side sees the 4GB
slave F: (which has files on it) as an unformatted drive. If I put in
drive 1 with W98, it sees the F: files no problem.

I have gone through the W2k troubleshooter & it didn't help (no
surprise there), and removed the device as well as attempted to
reinstall the driver from the install disk as it suggested, but these
attempts have not helped. My understanding was that W2K would read
this FAT32 drive no problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
I have installed a removable drive bay. Drive 2 for this bay is 40GB
partioned equally as C: with full W2K and Office XP and D: with full
W2K and Office 2000. Dual boot works fine. Either side sees the 4GB
slave F: (which has files on it) as an unformatted drive. If I put in
drive 1 with W98, it sees the F: files no problem.

I have gone through the W2k troubleshooter & it didn't help (no
surprise there), and removed the device as well as attempted to
reinstall the driver from the install disk as it suggested, but these
attempts have not helped. My understanding was that W2K would read
this FAT32 drive no problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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If you see this answer twice, blame it on the internal server error I
got when attempting the first post Google...
In case I stumped you all (as opposed to not generating any interest)
I used my W98 boot disk to fdisk the drive and found it was formatted
as "FAv32!" (including the exclamation point). I could not find any
info on the net about FAv32, so I don't know what the heck that is.
After running fdisk and format with the W98 boot disk, all is fine.
Hope this helps somebody one day.
 
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