I had my new PC up and running under XP Media Center. I added a 2nd
hard drive, created the partition to the entire size of the drive,
formatted the drive, and moved data to it. Some program I loaded
trashed XP somehow and I had to reload XP from scratch. Now my second
hardware shows up under Disk Management as Basic, online, and I see the
volume label I previously assigned. It also shows me 279GB total space
with 164GB free so it sees that there is data on the drive. But the
new load of XP doesn't give it a drive letter and that option is grayed
out when I right click on the drive. Do I have any other option than
deleting the partition and starting over?

OK, I know why it happened. The culprit was GoBack. I tried
uninstalling it which is what trashed my system in the first place. I
had no choice but to delete the partition on the 2nd drive and
reformat. I have all the data on my old PC so nothing is lost other
than a lot of time.

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> I had my new PC up and running under XP Media Center. I added a 2nd
> hard drive, created the partition to the entire size of the drive,
> formatted the drive, and moved data to it. Some program I loaded
> trashed XP somehow and I had to reload XP from scratch. Now my second
> hardware shows up under Disk Management as Basic, online, and I see the
> volume label I previously assigned. It also shows me 279GB total space
> with 164GB free so it sees that there is data on the drive. But the
> new load of XP doesn't give it a drive letter and that option is grayed
> out when I right click on the drive. Do I have any other option than
> deleting the partition and starting over?

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> OK, I know why it happened. The culprit was GoBack. I tried
> uninstalling it which is what trashed my system in the first place. I
> had no choice but to delete the partition on the 2nd drive and
> reformat. I have all the data on my old PC so nothing is lost other
> than a lot of time.
>
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> I had my new PC up and running under XP Media Center. I added a 2nd
>> hard drive, created the partition to the entire size of the drive,
>> formatted the drive, and moved data to it. Some program I loaded
>> trashed XP somehow and I had to reload XP from scratch. Now my second
>> hardware shows up under Disk Management as Basic, online, and I see the
>> volume label I previously assigned. It also shows me 279GB total space
>> with 164GB free so it sees that there is data on the drive. But the
>> new load of XP doesn't give it a drive letter and that option is grayed
>> out when I right click on the drive. Do I have any other option than
>> deleting the partition and starting over?
>
And I assume you are all done with goback, rename it giveback (to
whoever wants it).
Dave Cohen