cannot assign a drive letter

[philo]

a friend of mine just built a new machine using XP pro.sp2
he then slaved the drive from his old XP machine into it...
but disk management had *no* option to assign it a drive letter...
even though it was seen as healthy and formatted as NTFS...

so he brought the drive over to my own test machine with removable
drives (it dual boots xp and win2k) and confirmed that from my XP
installtion...
though the drive was seen as formatted NTFS and healthy...there was *no*
option
to assign a drive letter.(greyed out)

i then booted over to win2k where disk management *did* allow me to assign a
drive letter
and to view the data on the drive...
but even after assigning a drive letter...
booting back to XP *still* had no option for drive letter assignment

although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd disk...
i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive letter assignment...

[Kadaitcha Man]

Post by philo
a friend of mine

BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!

PS: Physician, heal thyself.

[philo]

"Kadaitcha Man" wrote in message >

Post by Kadaitcha Man
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!
PS: Physician, heal thyself.

you mean:

medice cura te ipsum


by the way...i'd just like to mention to everyone here that K-man has
recently enrolled in a correspondence course on how to become an
idiot-savant.
well, congratulations are in order here as i've seen that he's successfully
completed the *first* half of the course !

kudos!

[Conor]

Post by philo
although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd disk...
i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive letter assignment...

Did you try logging in as Administrator, rather than a member of the
administrator group, and taking ownership of the drive?

[Kadaitcha Man]

Post by Conor

Post by philo
although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd disk...
i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive letter assignment...

Did you try logging in as Administrator, rather than a member of the
administrator group

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Fuck me dead. As if you haven't fucking well
embarrassed yourself enough.

[philo]

Post by Conor

Post by philo
although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd disk...
i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive letter assignment...

Did you try logging in as Administrator, rather than a member of the
administrator group, and taking ownership of the drive?

yes
i logged in as administrator...
but of course if windows explorer does not see the drive...
there are no folders or files to take ownership of

the real kicker is that i;ve seen this same problem with XP posted before
but i've never yet seen anyone post back that they've solved it

[relic]

Post by philo

Post by Conor

Post by philo
although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd
disk... i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive
letter assignment...

Did you try logging in as Administrator, rather than a member of the
administrator group, and taking ownership of the drive?

yes
i logged in as administrator...
but of course if windows explorer does not see the drive...
there are no folders or files to take ownership of

Now you see why everyone laughs at the idiot Cooner?

Post by philo
the real kicker is that i;ve seen this same problem with XP posted
before but i've never yet seen anyone post back that they've solved it

Did the drive ever have GoBack installed? Was it originally set up using a
Partition Manager program?

[philo]

Post by relic

Post by Conor

Post by philo
although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd
disk... i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive
letter assignment...

Did you try logging in as Administrator, rather than a member of the
administrator group, and taking ownership of the drive?

yet seen anyone post back that they've solved it

Post by relic
Did the drive ever have GoBack installed? Was it originally set up using a
Partition Manager program?

you , sir are a genius...
i was just going to post back that i think i figured it out...
but you beat me to it!

although XP had identified the drive as NTFS...
partition magic saw it as type 44...
just a few minutes ago i called my friend and asked him if he was using
GoBack...
and he said "yes, does the make a difference?"

so that is what must have caused the problem...
the disk label was changed by Go Back...


i must surmise that win2k gives precedence to the actual file type
over that of the disk label...
and XP must say : "better leave this one alone"
(pardon the anthrophomorphisation )

[relic]

Post by philo

Post by relic

Post by Conor

Post by philo
although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd
disk... i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive
letter assignment...

Did you try logging in as Administrator, rather than a member of
the administrator group, and taking ownership of the drive?

yet seen anyone post back that they've solved it

Post by relic
Did the drive ever have GoBack installed? Was it originally set up
using a Partition Manager program?

you , sir are a genius...
i was just going to post back that i think i figured it out...
but you beat me to it!
although XP had identified the drive as NTFS...
partition magic saw it as type 44...
just a few minutes ago i called my friend and asked him if he was
using GoBack...
and he said "yes, does the make a difference?"
so that is what must have caused the problem...
the disk label was changed by Go Back...
i must surmise that win2k gives precedence to the actual file type
over that of the disk label...
and XP must say : "better leave this one alone"
(pardon the anthrophomorphisation )

If you can, put it back into the original machine and remove GoBack. Then it
will work fine in your XP box.

[philo]

Post by relic
If you can, put it back into the original machine and remove GoBack. Then it
will work fine in your XP box.

i am sure that would work...
but we already did the transfer using my win2k machine...
but i assure you , my friend is now informed.

*thank you* very much!

[relic]

Post by philo

Post by relic
If you can, put it back into the original machine and remove GoBack.
Then it will work fine in your XP box.

i am sure that would work...
but we already did the transfer using my win2k machine...
but i assure you , my friend is now informed.
*thank you* very much!

Any time.

[maxis]

Post by philo

Post by relic

Post by Conor

Post by philo
although we were finally able to transfer the data by using a 3rd
disk... i am quite puzzled as to why XP would not allow a drive
letter assignment...

Did you try logging in as Administrator, rather than a member of
the administrator group, and taking ownership of the drive?

yet seen anyone post back that they've solved it

Post by relic
Did the drive ever have GoBack installed? Was it originally set up
using a Partition Manager program?

you , sir are a genius...
i was just going to post back that i think i figured it out...
but you beat me to it!
although XP had identified the drive as NTFS...
partition magic saw it as type 44...
just a few minutes ago i called my friend and asked him if he was
using GoBack...
and he said "yes, does the make a difference?"
so that is what must have caused the problem...
the disk label was changed by Go Back...
i must surmise that win2k gives precedence to the actual file type
over that of the disk label...
and XP must say : "better leave this one alone"
(pardon the anthrophomorphisation )

If you convert the drive to dynamic you can access the files, if its type 44

maxis

[philo]

Post by maxis
If you convert the drive to dynamic you can access the files, if its type 44

i thought of converting...but have never used a dynamic disc before...
figured we'd loose all the data...so i decided not to experiment
in unknown areas