Second HD not in explorer

I have just installed a secondary HD in my machine; WinXP
finds it great, installs it, but will not assign a drive
letter to it. It is in device manager, and seems to be
working fine according to Windows.

I have attempted to manually assign a drive letter via
disk management, but it will not allow me to do anything
other than delete the partition. Please help.

Hi Steve,

What happens if you go into Disk Management and delete and then recreate
the partition? Does it allow you to create the new partition and format it
properly? If so, then there is no reason I can see why it will not allow you
to assign a drive letter to it.

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"Steve" <skizzo@charter.net> wrote in message
news:1bc601c3e0b0$5ab56890$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have just installed a secondary HD in my machine; WinXP
> finds it great, installs it, but will not assign a drive
> letter to it. It is in device manager, and seems to be
> working fine according to Windows.
>
> I have attempted to manually assign a drive letter via
> disk management, but it will not allow me to do anything
> other than delete the partition. Please help.

Hi, Steve.

As you probably know, "drive" letters are not assigned to entire physical
drives. We must create a primary partition and assign a "drive" letter to
that. Or create an extended partition and then create at least one logical
drive within that; the extended partition will not receive a "drive" letter,
but each logical drive will get a letter. Each primary partition and each
logical drive is a "volume"; each is assigned a "drive" letter and can then
be formatted.

With Disk Management, you can create one or more partitions and logical
drives on the physical drive, assign drive letters to them, and then format
them.

RC
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"Steve" <skizzo@charter.net> wrote in message
news:1bc601c3e0b0$5ab56890$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have just installed a secondary HD in my machine; WinXP
> finds it great, installs it, but will not assign a drive
> letter to it. It is in device manager, and seems to be
> working fine according to Windows.
>
> I have attempted to manually assign a drive letter via
> disk management, but it will not allow me to do anything
> other than delete the partition. Please help.