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Scatterbrain
I'm hoping someone here can help with this perplexing issue.
I have an XP installation on a new machine. I slaved a drive from an old
Win98 machine that was the primary drive and booted XP. XP saw the new
hardware and installed it, yet there's no drive letter in explorer.
Disk Management shows the drive as Active, Healthy and Disk 1 yet the
option to assign a drive letter is grayed out. There are no conflicts,
I do not have Norton GoBack installed though System Works is installed.
I installed Partition Magic and the drive shows as Type 44, not FAT32 even
though XP shows it as FAT32. I can put the drive back in the old machine
and boot to it just fine.
I've done a Google search on this issue and have found that there are many
other people with this problem and nobody has solved it.
If anyone knows what the problem is I'd appreciate some input!
Thanks,
-S
I have an XP installation on a new machine. I slaved a drive from an old
Win98 machine that was the primary drive and booted XP. XP saw the new
hardware and installed it, yet there's no drive letter in explorer.
Disk Management shows the drive as Active, Healthy and Disk 1 yet the
option to assign a drive letter is grayed out. There are no conflicts,
I do not have Norton GoBack installed though System Works is installed.
I installed Partition Magic and the drive shows as Type 44, not FAT32 even
though XP shows it as FAT32. I can put the drive back in the old machine
and boot to it just fine.
I've done a Google search on this issue and have found that there are many
other people with this problem and nobody has solved it.
If anyone knows what the problem is I'd appreciate some input!
Thanks,
-S