disc partition/can't read disc

[Guest]

I had Norton Goback (worked well) on a single 80 GB drive pc. The motherboard
went bad. I pulled the drive and put in new windows XP pc as a slave (changed
the jumper). Now several programs cannot see the drive, eg Windows disc
management console. Nor can they gain physical characteristics of the drive.
It seems Goback put a funny primary partition (40mb) in that, according to
seagate dos-based tools, is "unknown file type". The other partition on this
drive takes up the rest of the drive (ntfs). Seagates other tools do not
help. If I could just get rid of that funny partition..?...
Windows XP does see the disc in explorer and does allow read/write. Hardware
manager says the disc is working properly.
I formatted the disc from XP, but this did not help either. PartitionMagic
could not see this drive, let alone make changes. Nortons suggestions on
forcing removal of goback seem to apply only for it on the C: drive.
Suggestions?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I had Norton Goback (worked well) on a single 80 GB drive pc. The motherboard
went bad. I pulled the drive and put in new windows XP pc as a slave (changed
the jumper). Now several programs cannot see the drive, eg Windows disc
management console. Nor can they gain physical characteristics of the drive.
It seems Goback put a funny primary partition (40mb) in that, according to
seagate dos-based tools, is "unknown file type". The other partition on this
drive takes up the rest of the drive (ntfs). Seagates other tools do not
help. If I could just get rid of that funny partition..?...
Windows XP does see the disc in explorer and does allow read/write. Hardware
manager says the disc is working properly.
I formatted the disc from XP, but this did not help either. PartitionMagic
could not see this drive, let alone make changes. Nortons suggestions on
forcing removal of goback seem to apply only for it on the C: drive.
Suggestions?

It is a little difficult to figure out from your description what
runs and what does not run on your machine(s), seeing that
you used Norton's GoBack, replaced the motherboard, formatted
a disk (on which machine?) and have at least two partitions
(system? data?) on your disk.

A brutal and extremely effective way of getting rid of a partition
is to boot the machine with a Win98 disk from www.bootdisk.com,
then to run delpart.exe from http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm.
Just watch out that you delete the correct partition!