No 2nd Drive

[Shades997]

When l setup a new drive, 80GB and installed win XP on it, l used my old 80GB main drive as a second drive. The problem is, that l can not see the second drine. Both drives are MAXTOR 80GB 6Y080L0. The only way that l could see the drive, was in the Device Manager/Harddrives/.
l wanted to transfer over the files from my old drive to my new one, and chose certain files to transfer, but keeping the other new files, on the new drive.

Can anybody help, please

 

[Freestone]

If you had a program called GoBack installed on the old drive, you must either install it on the new drive, or boot from the old drive then either disable or remove GoBack from it.

If you didn't have GoBack installed, what does Disk Management show? (Start, Run, diskmgmt.msc)

 

[Shades997]

thanks For reply,

I have Goback installed on my new Hard Drive, but does not reconise the 2nd drive.

In the top half of the Disk Manaement Window it shows, that there is only the New C: drive is there.


In the bottom half of the Disk Management Window it Shows,
Disk Management shows that there are 2 Hard Drives, the new Hard Drive (Disk0)Shows - 76.32GB NTFS, Healthy (System)
2nd Old Head Drive (Disk1) Shows - 76.33GB Unallocated

 

[Freestone]

Was GoBack installed on the old drive prior to installation of the new drive or did you put GoBack on the new drive only?

I wonder if diskpart could provide some insight. Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd), then enter the command diskpart, you should get a DISKPART> prompt. Enter select disk 1, you should receive a response "Disk 1 is now the selected disk.". Enter list partition and I would think that only 1 partition is shown. If so, enter select partition 1, you should receive a response "Partition 1 is now the selected partition.". Enter detail partition, the response should look similar to:

Partition 1
Type : 0F
Hidden: No
Active: No

List here the response you receive, especially the type. Enter exit to quit diskpart.

Be careful with diskpart as it is a powerful tool that if used wrongly could cost you your data. I strongly discourage experimenting with its commands.

 

[Shades997]

Was GoBack installed on the old drive prior to installation of the new drive or did you put GoBack on the new drive only?"

Goback3 was installed on the old drive and on my new drive, Goback4 is installed - but why ?

 

[Shades997]

l mean, Goback4 is installed on my new drive

 

[micker377]

On the Go-Back CD, there is a program to remove Go-Back.

Support > Gbtools > gb_prog.exe.

This removes the G-Back overlay, so the drive can be seen as "normal".

 

[garebo]

Or you can go to the goback main menu, go to options and disable from there.


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[Shades997]

Thank you for you responses, but how can l remove goback from the second drive, if l can't find the drive.

 

[garebo]

If you disable goback i believe thats all you have to do for goback.
Just reboot now and see if you can see the new drive.



Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[Shades997]

If you disable goback i believe thats all you have to do for goback.
Just reboot now and see if you can see the new drive."

The new drive is not the problem, its the 2nd (old) drive that l can't see, only in Disk Management, where it says that it is unallocated with no Drive letter

 

[garebo]

I know, but if you have goback disabled on your main drive, maybe goback wasnt enabled on your second drive and so maybe you can now see your second drive.
But, you need to reboot for goback to disable, thats why i said to reboot.
When windows comes up again, you can then see if you can get at your drive and you can see if goback is enabled on that second drive as well by going into goback menu system and checking.


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[Shades997]

I forgot to say that l disabled Goback (took a while), and after the reboot, l checked to see if l could see the drive, but nothing, could only see it in Disk Manager.

 

[garebo]

Guess we misunderstood each other, lol, no harm done.

YOu can see the drive in disk management, right?
Right click on it and see if it will format.


Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[Shades997]

YOu can see the drive in disk management, right?
Right click on it and see if it will format.
lol, No problem


In the top half of the Disk Manaement Window it shows, that there is only the New C: drive is there (my new Drive), but not the 2nd (old) Drive.

In the bottom half of the Disk Management Window it Shows,
that there are 2 Hard Drives, the new Hard Drive (Disk0)Shows - 76.32GB NTFS, Healthy (System), and the 2nd Old Hard Drive (Disk1) Shows - 76.33GB Unallocated.

When l right clicked the 2nd (Disk1) Drive, it showed "New Partition", "Properties", and "Help". I clicked on "New Partition" and it looks like you would be able to partition and format the drive

 

[Freestone]

GoBack installs a partition identifier that XP doesn't recognize, which is why I asked if GoBack was installed.

Before formatting your old drive with disk management, try my earlier suggestion of using diskpart so we can at least determine what partition type XP is seeing:

Open a command prompt (Start, Run, cmd), then enter the command diskpart, you should get a DISKPART> prompt. Enter select disk 1, you should receive a response "Disk 1 is now the selected disk.". Enter list partition and I would think that only 1 partition is shown. If so, enter select partition 1, you should receive a response "Partition 1 is now the selected partition.". Enter detail partition, the response should look similar to:

Partition 1
Type : 0F
Hidden: No
Active: No

List here the response you receive, especially the type. Enter exit to quit diskpart.

Is it posible there is a conflict between GoBack 4 on the new drive, and GoBack 3 on the old? Perhaps you can you try removing the old drive, reinstalling the old drive as Primary Master, and disabling or removing GoBack from there.

 

[Shades997]

I used DiskPart, and this was the result;

I open the command prompt, then entered the command diskpart. then entered "select disk 1", the response was "Disk 1 is now the selected disk.". Then entered list partition and the responsed was "There are no partitions on this disk shown".

 

[Freestone]

Not sounding good...

try:

diskpart
select disk 1
detail disk


Anything listed?

 

[Shades997]

try:

diskpart
select disk 1
detail disk


Anything listed?"

Yes, there was;

Maxtor 6Y080L0
Disk ID: 70824070
TYPE: IDE
BUS: 0
TARGET: 1
LUN ID: 0

There are no Volumes

 

[Freestone]

It sounds as if all partitions on the old drive have been removed, or the drive's MBR or partition table has been damaged. If this was a GoBack issue, DISKPART would have at least shown a partition of type 44 hex.

When the old drive was the only drive, did you use any type of overlay software?

Can you try hooking up the old drive as the only drive, primary master, and see if you any partitions show up?

It may be time to investigate data recovery tools. Many users have reported good success with GetDataBack (

http://www.runtime.org/)