Vista - SATA Drive unrecognized in Vista Ultimate

<grin>

Had you mentioned GoBack you would have been told to uninstall it from the
operating system you initially installed it from.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Albert Trudeau" <AlbertTrudeau@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news62EEC58-E262-46A7-89DE-708688F107A5@microsoft.com...
> PROBLEM RESOLVED
>
> I found the problem (by accident).
>
> When I was in a Windows XP session, I decided to do a Norton Disk Doctor
> check on the drives (C: and D. With the D: drive being the one in
> question
> here!
>
> I couldn't perform this check, until I disabled Norton's GoBack. Well, I
> haven't "enabled" Norton GoBack yet. I plugged in the removeable SATA HDD
> rack containing Windows Vista Ultimate and booted up. I wanted to find
> something on the C: drive, so I went into Windows Explorer. Lo and
> behold....the D: drive is now showing!
>
> Why? I am assuming that the Norton GoBack has specific descriptors that
> only it (GoBack app) would recognize --- effectively hiding this drive
> from
> Windows Vista. I think that if I installed Norton GoBack here (in Vista)
> and
> had it set for both drives (C: and D that I WOULD be able to see it
> here.
>
> Anyways, thanks for the help, everybody.
>
>
> "Albert Trudeau" wrote:
>
>> I'm still looking for a solution for my problem.
>>
>> I have installed a 'secondary' SATA HDD and though you can see it in the
>> "Disk Management" window (Computer Management Console), there isn't a
>> drive
>> letter assigned, nor can I assign a drive letter.
>>
>> The 'Volume' column shows the drive (without an assigned drive letter)
>> The 'Layout' column shows "Simple" (just like the C: drive)
>> The 'Type' is "Basic" (just like the C: drive)
>> The 'File System' is blank (whereas the C: drive shows NTFS)
>> The 'Status' is "Healthy, (Active, Primary Partition); (whereas the C:
>> drive
>> is listed as "Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump,
>> Primary
>> Partition))
>>
>> The only anomaly listed above is under the "%Free" column; this is at
>> 100%
>> -- which is, of course, false. This is my Backup D: drive that is listed
>> in
>> Windows XP Professional, etc.
>>
>> The 'pop-up' menu will only list 'Delete Volume' and 'Help'. All other
>> selections are unavailable (ghosted out).
>>
>> This 'glitch' is preventing me from running Vista full-time. I would
>> love
>> to hear a solution as soon as possible. Thank you.
>>
>> Albert Trudeau