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Old February 24th 05, 04:14 AM
John Isenberg
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Default Windows 98 has not assigned drive letters to drive

Have be using Maxtor 30GB drive as second drive for several years without
problem via Maxtor ATA card. Recently installed Norton Systemworks 2005 with
Go Back. Ran updates, and Go Back update "removed" Go Back info on drives
D,E,F (my partitions on this drive) during update process. Seems it removed
more also. Upon reboot I had total OS failure. "GDI.exe error" and
computer would immediately shut down.

After a clean install of Windows 98, drive shows up in boot information and
through the system information, but has no drive letter assigned, and does
not show up in the "Windows Explorer" or "My computer".

My hope is that the data is still intact on the drive but that the drive
formatting information Windows needs has been lost or changed. This drive
was partitioned into three 10GB partitions via MaxBlast. The drive has some
redundancy as it was used to back up my smaller C: drive, but would like to
try to recover as much as is possible. I have a hard CD backup of the C:
drive from November 2004, with system information if this could help.

System information shows drive working properly; Target ID: 0; Logical Unit:
0 , but drive letter assignment is blank.

Both other devices (CD-Rom and Zip250) on the adaptor card are seen, have
designated drive letters and operate fine.

Help and advice on how to proceed appreciated. Have also written to Maxtor.

Thanks in advance.

John Isenberg











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Old February 24th 05, 10:49 AM
Jeff Richards
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When you used the MaxBlast utility to prepare the drive you may have
partitioned it with the MaxBlast partitioning. If so, the Maxblast
partition driver has to be installed on the boot drive in order to enable
the OS to see the partitioning on the second drive. Note that the boot
drive is _not_ partitioned with the MaxBlast utility - the driver is simply
installed on the boot drive so it is loaded and active at boot time.
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Jeff Richards
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Have be using Maxtor 30GB drive as second drive for several years without
problem via Maxtor ATA card. Recently installed Norton Systemworks 2005
with
Go Back. Ran updates, and Go Back update "removed" Go Back info on drives
D,E,F (my partitions on this drive) during update process. Seems it
removed
more also. Upon reboot I had total OS failure. "GDI.exe error" and
computer would immediately shut down.

After a clean install of Windows 98, drive shows up in boot information
and
through the system information, but has no drive letter assigned, and does
not show up in the "Windows Explorer" or "My computer".

My hope is that the data is still intact on the drive but that the drive
formatting information Windows needs has been lost or changed. This drive
was partitioned into three 10GB partitions via MaxBlast. The drive has
some
redundancy as it was used to back up my smaller C: drive, but would like
to
try to recover as much as is possible. I have a hard CD backup of the C:
drive from November 2004, with system information if this could help.

System information shows drive working properly; Target ID: 0; Logical
Unit:
0 , but drive letter assignment is blank.

Both other devices (CD-Rom and Zip250) on the adaptor card are seen, have
designated drive letters and operate fine.

Help and advice on how to proceed appreciated. Have also written to
Maxtor.

Thanks in advance.

John Isenberg













 




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