Old Western Digital IDE not assigned drive letter but is recognized

In my experience, when you're connecting a single drive this way, you generally do not have any jumpers set. You could try it that way to see if it makes any difference.

And no, it doesn't matter if any partitions on the drive contain an OS. I do this stuff all the time for the same reasons -- reusing an older drive that has an OS installed on it. I've not had problems assigning drive letters to the partitions on the drives.

Disk 1 has 1 partition. It is 37GB large and is 100% free.... at least that's in display. But he doesn't know what file system type is!!

In elevated command prompt:

Code:

diskpart
sel  disk  1
list  part
sel  part  1
det  part

post output

btw: you can't assign a drive letter because win7 doesn't understand the file system

Kaktussoft said:

Disk 1 has 1 partition. It is 37GB large and is 100% free.... at least that's in display. But he doesn't know what file system type is!!

In elevated command prompt:

Code:

diskpart
sel  disk  1
list  part
sel  part  0
det  part

post output

btw: you can't assign a driver letter because win7 doesn't understand the file system

Here it is:



Thanks, thought it might be the file sys but it should be FAT32 on that drive...?
L

PS: Mark - no jumper is set, making the drive a master. Sorry for the confusion.

Do

Code:

 
diskpart
sel  disk  1
sel  part  1
det  part

so part 1 instead of part 0

So type of partition is 44.

44 GoBack partition GoBack is a utility that records changes made to the disk, allowing you to view or go back to some earlier state. It takes over disk I/O like a Disk Manager would, and stores its logs in its own partition.

Source Partition types: List of partition identifiers for PCs

You ever used an utility called GoBack?

Solution: If you need to modify partitions on a hard disk that is being monitored by GoBack, you must first disable GoBack. To do this, go to GoBack�·s Main Menu, click Options, and then select Disable GoBack. Before you begin modifying your partitions, you must first reboot your computer. After you have rebooted and finished making partition modifications, you can then re-enable GoBack.

In some instances, however, disabling GoBack apparently isn't enough. GoBack seems to embed itself into the Master Boot Record of the source drive and it must be fully un-installed from the source drive BEFORE any copying can take place. (Once you have uninstalled GoBack, you must also reboot the machine.) It may also be necessary to do an FDISK /MBR to repair the master boot record. Once this is done, you should have no problems. If GoBack still has a lock on the partitions you will need to contact Adaptec to have the references removed correctly. After you have finished using your PowerQuest product to manipulate partitions, you may, of course, reinstall GoBack.