Can't install hard drive beyond letter L

[Guest]

Hello,
I have several USB drives hooked to my computer as I am trying to migrate
PCs. However, I cannot seem to get any drive to activate beyond the letter
L. I looked at TweakUI and M though Z have a red question mark. I do
remember that there used to be a LASTDRIVE variable but I do not see it in
CONFIG.SYS not Environmental Variables in MyComputer.

How can I fix this to go beyond L in assigning drive letter?

Thanks, Dean.

 

[Guest]

Further more testing reveals that a NTFS drive in a USB enclosure maybe the
problem. However, it this a bug or an undocumented feature? Shouldn't USB
enclosures for hard drives handle NTFS partitions?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Further more testing reveals that a NTFS drive in a USB enclosure
maybe the problem. However, it this a bug or an undocumented
feature? Shouldn't USB enclosures for hard drives handle NTFS
partitions?

Yes, they should, and indeed they do. I don't know what your problem is, but
this isn't it.

 

[Steve N.]

Hello,
I have several USB drives hooked to my computer as I am trying to migrate
PCs. However, I cannot seem to get any drive to activate beyond the letter
L. I looked at TweakUI and M though Z have a red question mark. I do
remember that there used to be a LASTDRIVE variable but I do not see it in
CONFIG.SYS not Environmental Variables in MyComputer.

How can I fix this to go beyond L in assigning drive letter?

Thanks, Dean.

How do the drives appear in Disk Management? Do you have any network
drives mapped? Windows XP often tries to map USB drives to letters in
use my mapped network drives. It may be related to this, which I
consider a bug. The OS should respect mapped network drive letters and
not try (and fail) to re-map them to those letters in use by network
drives. Usually this can be corrected in Disk Management my re-assigning
the USB drives to non network mapped drive letters. I don't know if this
is related to your issue or not.

Steve N.

 

[Guest]

Under disk management, it shows as Disk 6 (no letter), 111.76 GB NTFS,
Healthy (Active). No mapped drives at the moment. Did have one, but don't
see it anymore. I must have disconnected prior to this issue.

Thanks for the reply... still hunting for answers.