Jon schrieb:[color=blue]
> I used a WD 120GB Fat32 external UBS drive to move old files from a MS
> ME desktop computer to my Vista ultimate notebook. It worked great. But
> I decided to use the Vista system to scandisk this WD FAT 32 drive to
> check for ay bad sectors.There were none. [Drive G - properties - tools
> - this option will check the fVolume for errors].
>
> Now my MS ME desktop can't read this Fat 32 WD drive after the Vista
> drive error check. It says this drive is not formatted. Sometime it says
> the drive is corrupted. In desktop MS ME, all the files on the drive
> show up like they ae supposed to, but if I click on one and open it, it
> says this file is not there, do I want to create it?
> It looks like Vista just destroyed a good harddrive, which contained 120
> GB of my MS ME backup files.
>
> Unrelated to this problem is my Seagate FreeAgent NTSF exterior drive
> for my Vista notebook - which works great there - cannot be read by my
> MS ME desktop.
> Thanks for any help, Jon[/color]

May be there was a switch between FAT16 and FAT32?

Roy