Drive Letter changes

[Paul]

A few days ago, most of my drive letters changed on their
own. I had my drive letters setup a certain way and
never had any issues with it until this happened.

When I run disk management to try and change them back,
here is what happens.

1. Open disk management - It wants to initialize a 120GB
removable hard disk I have. The drive is functional and
I can access all the data on it. But every single time I
open disk management, it wants to initialize the drive.
Even if I let it initialize the drive last time I opened
it.
2. When I right click on a drive and select change
letter, the "Change Drive Letter and Path" dialog opens
up, but there are no drive letters listed to change. I
cannot remove or change any letters currently assigned.

I am using the administrator account when I try to
perform these functions. I installed no software or
hardware when this problem occured.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Paul]

Update:

Upon clicking the Add button and adding a new drive
letter for a drive, the drive letter appears briefly next
to the volume name in parenthesis as it should, but then
immediately vanishes.

I have been able to manually get the drive letters back
to normal by "Add"ing higher drive letters to each of
them, and then "Add"ing the correct drive letters...
Still, no drive letters show up in the dialog box and
they are not displayed in Drive Management window.

If anyone has any ideas as to what is causing this
problem, I would be very thankful!

 

[mikey]

try us9ing the CHANGE instead of ADD .



(e-mail address removed)



Update:

Upon clicking the Add button and adding a new drive
letter for a drive, the drive letter appears briefly next
to the volume name in parenthesis as it should, but then
immediately vanishes.

I have been able to manually get the drive letters back
to normal by "Add"ing higher drive letters to each of
them, and then "Add"ing the correct drive letters...
Still, no drive letters show up in the dialog box and
they are not displayed in Drive Management window.

If anyone has any ideas as to what is causing this
problem, I would be very thankful!

 

[Guest]

Well, I cannot use "Change" because no drive letters are
listed in the dialog and change is greyed out. That's
the entire problem in fact.

When I assign a new drive letter using the Add button,
the drive letter appears for about 1/2 a second nect to
the volume name, then vanishes. The drive letter DOES
show up in explorer, but NOT in Drive Management. It's
really an odd problem.

-----Original Message-----
try us9ing the CHANGE instead of ADD .



(e-mail address removed)



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Update:

Upon clicking the Add button and adding a new drive
letter for a drive, the drive letter appears briefly next
to the volume name in parenthesis as it should, but then
immediately vanishes.

I have been able to manually get the drive letters back
to normal by "Add"ing higher drive letters to each of
them, and then "Add"ing the correct drive letters...
Still, no drive letters show up in the dialog box and
they are not displayed in Drive Management window.

If anyone has any ideas as to what is causing this
problem, I would be very thankful!

11/10/2003

 

[Alex Nichol]

A few days ago, most of my drive letters changed on their
own. I had my drive letters setup a certain way and
never had any issues with it until this happened.

When I run disk management to try and change them back,
here is what happens.

1. Open disk management - It wants to initialize a 120GB
removable hard disk I have.

Get to Disk Management (I would go via Control Panel - Admin Tools -
Computer Management, select Disk Management) and look lower right for
the graphic of the physical drive. - and for things like CD icons.

There right click in any partition (other than the one where XP is
installed) or CD drive icon, and there is Change letter