Bill
Wed Mar 19 19:50:47 PDT 2008
YW Mike.Glad you got it fixed! :-)
"Mike S." <MikeS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:238E3F53-D1A2-4E5D-8175-07595D7E6F5D@microsoft.com...
> YOU RULE!!!! Finally I am able to read this stupid drive. GoBack was
> removed and everything functioned perfectly. What a horrible program!!!!
>
> Thanks again.
>
> "Bill Blanton" wrote:
>
>> Goback moves the partition table information, and replaces it with a single
>> proprietary partition type spanning the whole drive. Goback's MBR boot code
>> is needed to run in order to access the "monitored" partititons once it has
>> been installed..
>>
>> Either reinstall GoBack or follow the instructions in the following link to
>> unhook Goback.
>>
>>
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/goback.nsf/docid/2005111514174058?OpenDocument&src=hot&seg=hho
>>
>> Personally, I would dump Goback and put a drive imaging/cloning strategy
>> in place.
>>
>>
>> "Mike S." <MikeS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0B2F195B-4779-42B8-BB20-199EA121318C@microsoft.com...
>> > Status is Healthy (Active) and Properties says: This device is working
>> > properly.
>> >
>> > I have also shut down, removed the IDE cable and power to the slave drive
>> > and booted up the master drive alone. Shut down again, re-attached IDE cable
>> > and power and rebooted and their was no change.
>> >
>> > I then decided to boot up the slave drive by itself and sure enough I saw
>> > the Norton GoBack screen. I hit space bar so that I could enter the options
>> > to disable GoBack and the screen goes into a DOS screen telling me there is a
>> > GoBack error and to press any key to reboot. This process repeats itself.
>> >
>> > Thank you Norton for just a wonderful product.
>> >
>> > Any help is appreciated.
>> >
>> > "DL" wrote:
>> >
>> >> What does Disk Management show for the status/properties of this drive?
>> >>
>> >> "Mike S." <Mike S.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:7A0A8167-B3DE-4EA3-B18E-97CCEEE9B25E@microsoft.com...
>> >> >I have noticed that this question has been asked a few times, but I can't
>> >> > find a solution that works. I had two hard drives in my computer that
>> >> > functioned properly before my master drive (C:) became corrupted and I
>> >> > needed
>> >> > to format and reinstall the OS (Win XP Home). I saved everything I needed
>> >> > to
>> >> > my slave drive (D:).
>> >> >
>> >> > I have since reinstalled everything onto my master drive (with the slave
>> >> > still installed, this may have been a no-no) and now 'My Computer', or
>> >> > 'Explorer' will not recognize the drive nor assign it a drive letter.
>> >> > Disk
>> >> > Manager sees the drive just fine but will not allow me to change the drive
>> >> > letter (change drive letter is grayed out). Device manager also
>> >> > recognizes
>> >> > the drive and both utilities say everything is fine.
>> >> >
>> >> > Now........originally the master drive had Norton Go Back running, and it
>> >> > probably left some traces of itself on the secondary drive. Problem is I
>> >> > cannot remove anything from the secondary drive now because I can't see
>> >> > it.
>> >> > I did not uninstall Go Back before I formatted the master drive because I
>> >> > did
>> >> > not realize that it was a problem and I have not reinstalled Go Back on my
>> >> > reformatted master drive. The main drive is a Maxtor PATA 40GB drive and
>> >> > the
>> >> > slave drive is a Western Digital PATA 40GB drive
>> >> >
>> >> > Are there any solutions I haven't seen??
>> >>
>> >>
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