Windows XP not detecting my EXFAT hard drive

[suru83]

I have downloaded and installed the driver update for XP (KB955704) - still it does not detect the harddrive. I have restarted the machine ofcourse. On my disk management the hard drive is still showing as 'unallocated'. Can you help?

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

Did this problem occur after a XP reinstall?
Or did drive come from another system with latter windows?
Why are you using exFat?
Is there any data on it?
Internal or external drive ?

If you can extract data on another PC
Repartition and format as NTFS unless very good reason

A gparted live Linux cd image may be able to read the disk and check it is working not damaged
http://gparted.org/features.php


Regards
Mike Barnes

 

[spooky2th]

maybe this will help:

How to Add Support for the exFAT File System in Windows XP

http://techmeasy.blogspot.com/2012/07/add-support-for-exFAT-in-Windows-XP.html

 

[popatim]

See if another pc can read the drive, perhaps it really is in unallocated status

 

[spooky2th]

Can you see the drive in disk manager? If you can you can give it a letter so that windows can see it and/or format it.