Problem with a USB HDD enclosure

I went out a purchased a USB Hard Drive enclousuer for a spare hard drive that I have. I tried the enclouse out on one of my drives and everything worked the way that it was suppose to. When I placed my second hard drive in the enclousure my computer recognized the usb drive but I can not accesse the hard drive. There is no drive letter. When I went in to disk management (I am running Windows XP pro) it showed the drive as healthy and active, but it wont allow me to change the drive letter. The only thing I see is delete partition or properties. Now I know that there are files on this drive and I am tring to remove them. But I can't. What have I forgotten to do or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

 

Let me guess, that drive had GoBack on it.

If thats the case, the partition type is not recognizable to XP. You could always try reinstalling GoBack.

 

No this drive didn't have go back on it, it actually came out of a now defunct windows 2000 advanced server. I used this drive to store my MP3 collection on it

 

Well, the reason remains the same. You have an invalid partition table.

Let me see if I can dredge up my write up on how to check that.

 

Thanks, any help on reclaiming this drive would be great. I really don't want to loose my data.

 

At a cmd.exe prompt:

Type: Diskpart
enter
Type: select disk 1 (assuming this is the second disk on your system. Check Disk Management to be sure)
Type: list partition
enter
Type: select partition 1
enter
Type: detail partition
enter


Tell us what the partition type is listed as. It will be a numerical value.

 

Ok, here is what I got from your instructions

Partition 1
Type: 44
Hidden: yes
Active: yes

Hope this helps

 

Sure does. Type 44 is the partition type Goback uses.

Like it or not, Goback was on this drive, be it as primary or slave.

That now defunct machine...was it a Gateway? Gateway used to ( and still may) put Goback on their machines.

 

No it wasn't a gateway. Man this sucks. I don't have a copy of GoBack. Is there anyway to make it work with out GoBack?

 

I'm using my extensive knowledge base (Google). I'll let you know what I find.

 

I found this:

http://msmvps.com/cgross/archive/2005/04/30/45230.aspx

Which lead to this:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/tools/pq/utilities/

You got your work cut out for ya. Looks simple enough though.

 

Oh as for what you need to change it to:

07 for NTFS
0B for Fat32

Make sure you get the correct filesystem.

 

How do I know what file system to use? I figured that I would use NTFS.

 

Thank you for the help. IT WORKED. Cool I didn't loose my data. I never know about goback and type 44, nor did I know how to check to find out what the type of a drive was. Now I do.

Thank you for the help

 

Quite welcome.