Re: XP does not assign drive letter to External SATA HDD

Ghost is fine, it doesn't mess with the disk MBR. The Master Boot Record is, without a doubt, about the single most important piece of code on the hard disk. GoBack hooks itself to the MBR and if you get disk problems or want to mount the disk in a computer without GoBack the disk may be unreadable. If GoBack barfs it may cause you to lose the disk completely, it's been known to happen more than once.

John

Memphis Tom wrote:

Thank you John. I will remove GoBack.
I have had it for a 10 month but, I never use it.
How about Ghost?
What do you think about Ghost?
Should I remove it also?
Let me know if you have any suggestion.

Tom.


"John John" <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e8jHcJ2WHHA.4132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Put it back in the laptop and uninstall GoBack on it. GoBack has a
non-standard MBR and Vista cannot read the drive properly. However, I
wouldn't do that without a FULL working backup of the files that you
want to keep! Screw ups with GoBack can cause you to lose all the data
on the drive! I would network the laptop to the Vista computer and
transfer the files that way, or put another drive in the USB enclosure
and move the files off the GoBack disk to the USB disk. Then I would
permanently get rid of GoBack!

John

Memphis Tom wrote:

Additional Information:

Inside of 2.5 HDD 120G Toshiba.
1st Partition is about 47M unknown, Secound is About 100G NTFS System
3rd is EISA FAT32.
It was in DELL XPS 1210 Notebook
MS Windows MCE 2005
Norton GoBack
Nroton Ghost

I bought new SATA HDD for XPS 1210, and install Vista.
I am trying to get my personal data from my old Toshiba HDD.
Please post any information will help.

I put my Toshiba HDD back to XPS 1210, It still boot Win MCE 2005 no
problme.

Thank you.



"Memphis Tom" <txdegawa@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:txdegawa@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
wrote in message news:%232rWId1WHHA.4860@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HI.
I remove 2.5 SATA HDD from notbook PC, It is still installed Windows
MCE 2005 NTFS format.
I put the SATA HDD into external USB case and plug into Desktop PC,
Dell Dimension 4700 Windows XP PRo SP2
System, I can see HDD is connected in Disk Manager, but I can not
assign drive letter.
I can do is delete partition only.
Is this mean this HDD is encrepted?
I do not want to delete patition, still OS is in it.
I just need to get my personal Data from the patision.
anybody has any ideas?
Please let me know.

Thank you.





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