Re: Cannot change drive letter via Disk management

Its is most likely an ownership issue as the XP drive is NTFS.

This solution is for XP, but the steps are the same in Vista.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

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David Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+



"Krakapo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> All - XP PC died, taken the hard drive and placed into external USB cage
> and plugged into Vista laptop. I cannot see it in My computer but under
> disk management I can see it as a disk and a healthy operating
> partition, but it has no drive letter and I am unable to change the
> drive letter as the only option I have is the delete command. My
> presumption is that as this was the master boot record on my XP PC, this
> is the reason why I cannot change the drive letter? But I am unsure.
>
> I have 90% of the data backed up on a seperate USB drive, but it's the
> 10% especially some recent video and photos that I want off the drive.
>
>
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> Krakapo