partition not enabled

  • Thread starter Thread starter Peter Mahoney
  • Start date Start date
P

Peter Mahoney

I have a multi-boot box with the secondary IDE cable
hanging out. I use it to virus scan and back up customer
HDDs. I do this booted to W2K/P SP2

Twice recently the following has happened:-

- power up with customer disk connected, do bios detect,
boot to W2K. Disk shows up as G:
- work on disk. Case 1:- 98SE fat32, did a virus removal,
retest in original PC. Case 2, XP/P NTFS, put disk back in
original PC and ran system restore.
- put disk back in my box and boot W2K. New Hardware
wizard fires up (it didn't before) but fails at the drive
letter assignment stage:- 'partition is not enabled,
reboot'.

Disk Management can see the disk but the File System field
is blank. Right Click - Properties produces no display.

Pete M
 
Disk Management can see the disk but the File System field
is blank. Right Click - Properties produces no display.

Pete M
Click to expand...

I have no solution to your specific problem, but I suspect that the virus on
the customer's HD sneaked past your guard. Or else the virus cleaner did
something too much - try fixmbr on the offending HD, and see if that works.
Good luck!

I do have a suggestion for your method of servicing other peoples machine's:
Boot their machines from a floppy or a CD w/ 3rd party OS/software on it
(check out Knoppix Linux -- runs from CD, and Linux utilities can deal with
pretty well everything.) The days when you could simply hang another HD onto
a Windows system and deal with it in total safety are gone IMO.
 
This may be your issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=221799
or
Your partition table could be missing for that partition.
Additionally, if the daisy chain of extended partition logical drives gets
broken, you lose access to those logical drives whose partitioning
information was lost or destroyed. There are no limits to the number of
logical drives in an extended partition, since it consists of a chain of
pointers.

Ralph [MSFT]

"This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no

rights."
 
Back
Top