Help? No drive letter for FAT32 slave drive in XP

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.

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Pavel


"Scatterbrain" wrote in message
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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

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
"Scatterbrain" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 May 2005 10:40:28 -0700, "Pavel" wrote:

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