Help? No drive letter for FAT32 slave drive in XP

[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

 

[Richard Urban]

I would e-mail you with what you need if I knew your address. Care to post
it munged? Something along the lines of (e-mail address removed). Remove
takeout to e-mail!


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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Kerry Brown]

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

It's caused by Norton GoBack. Just changing the partition type doesn't work.
The only solution I know of is to reinstall the drive as a master. When it
boots up press the space bar for the GoBack options and disable GoBack. This
doesn't always work. Sometimes you have to boot to Windows and uninstall
GoBack. Occasionally even that doesn't work and you have to boot from a
Win9x disk and run fdisk /mbr after it's uninstalled. Just one more reason
why I'd never let GoBack anywhere near my pc. I've seen more lost data from
GoBack than any other program I can think of.

Kerry

 

[Kerry Brown]

I would e-mail you with what you need if I knew your address. Care to post
it munged? Something along the lines of (e-mail address removed).
Remove takeout to e-mail!


--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

What do you use to fix it? I've run across this a couple of times and
changing the partition type didn't fix it. I'd be grateful for a quicker fix
in case I see it again.

Thanks, Kerry

 

[Richard Urban]

I have sent you an e-mail Kerry. Look for it please!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Kerry Brown]

I have sent you an e-mail Kerry. Look for it please!

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

Thanks, received the email and replied.

Kerry

 

[Al Smith]

It's caused by Norton GoBack. Just changing the partition type doesn't work.

The only solution I know of is to reinstall the drive as a master. When it
boots up press the space bar for the GoBack options and disable GoBack. This
doesn't always work. Sometimes you have to boot to Windows and uninstall
GoBack. Occasionally even that doesn't work and you have to boot from a
Win9x disk and run fdisk /mbr after it's uninstalled. Just one more reason
why I'd never let GoBack anywhere near my pc. I've seen more lost data from
GoBack than any other program I can think of.

Kerry

Interesting. I didn't know this about GoBack. I was given a copy
but I never did install it, because I was worried about problems
like this one cropping up. Glad now that I never used it.

 

[Pavel]

Just by coincidence my friends PC had this problem just yesterday. Not the
Type 44 but just the part where the drive can not be assigned drive letter.
I used Partition Magic to check this drive and found that the partition on
the drive was hidden and that was the problem. Simply used PM to unhide it.

 

[Scatterbrain]

Just by coincidence my friends PC had this problem just yesterday. Not the
Type 44 but just the part where the drive can not be assigned drive letter.
I used Partition Magic to check this drive and found that the partition on
the drive was hidden and that was the problem. Simply used PM to unhide it.

It turns out that the drive I was trying to slave DID have Norton GoBack on
it. I put it back in the old machine, disabled GoBack and was able to see
it in Xp after. Thanks for the input though.


-S

 

[Gene K]

You will find that most [if not all] major PC manufacturers hide their
"branding" or peculiar stuff on a hidden partition. Good points about GoBack
which I have and did not know.
Gene K