Drive Letter for C: missing!

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Had a problem with some software recognizing my c: drive. Everything seemed
fine, however, by accident I noticed that in Computer Management, Disk
Management, under the volume column, my c: drive was no longer labeled
"(c:)", and it was no longer described as "(System)" under Status. It is now
competely blank in the volume column and described as "(Active)" in the
Status column. That appears to be why Norton's Ghost labels it *: and will
not work properly when I try a clone backup. Due to the fact that all drop
down options for drive letter selection omit c:, I am not sure how to fix
this issue. The c: appears in windows explorer and all other places. Only
in the CM/DM is the letter missing. My computer seems to be working and
booting perfectly in all other ways. Please tell me how to fix the issue,
thanks
 
If you right click My computer and select Manage and Disk management,
Then if you click to highlite the drive and,
If you click Action at the top and all tasks,
under Change drive letter and paths,
Does the C: drive letter show up?
 
thanks for the reply, no, the letters start at J, I have other drives and
that is the first one available. I thought the same thing, but the c is
missing. I thought there was a way to assign the system drive, that might
solve this. I have no idea when it happened, or why, but the c is present in
windows explorer and everthing works properly, with the exceptioin of
restore, which gives the error message that c has been altered and can not be
restore to a previous point, that is all due to the fact that restore
apparently cann't see the c drive.
 
Can you Restore to an earlier date before this happened?

--
Jerry

The older I get, the better I was.


4ema said:
thanks for the reply, no, the letters start at J, I have other drives and
that is the first one available. I thought the same thing, but the c is
missing. I thought there was a way to assign the system drive, that might
solve this. I have no idea when it happened, or why, but the c is present
in
windows explorer and everthing works properly, with the exceptioin of
restore, which gives the error message that c has been altered and can not
be
restore to a previous point, that is all due to the fact that restore
apparently cann't see the c drive.
Click to expand...
<Snip>
 
I was trying to recall from the far past,
That the CPU could only support 5 drives,
Can you hide some of the drives, or disconnect some of them to see what
happens?

--
Jerry

The older I get, the better I was.


4ema said:
thanks for the reply, no, the letters start at J, I have other drives and
that is the first one available. I thought the same thing, but the c is
missing. I thought there was a way to assign the system drive, that might
solve this. I have no idea when it happened, or why, but the c is present
in
windows explorer and everthing works properly, with the exceptioin of
restore, which gives the error message that c has been altered and can not
be
restore to a previous point, that is all due to the fact that restore
apparently cann't see the c drive.
Click to expand...
<snip>
 
thanks for the reply, I lost my answer to you for some reason, I have only a
zip and cd/dvd drives, no other internal hard drive on the system. MS called
me back to tell me that they only suggested a complete clean reinstall, boy
will that take some time to do, I want to avoid if possible, thanks, Elliot
 
4ema said:
Had a problem with some software recognizing my c: drive. Everything seemed
fine, however, by accident I noticed that in Computer Management, Disk
Management, under the volume column, my c: drive was no longer labeled
"(c:)", and it was no longer described as "(System)" under Status. It is now
competely blank in the volume column and described as "(Active)" in the
Status column. That appears to be why Norton's Ghost labels it *: and will
not work properly when I try a clone backup. Due to the fact that all drop
down options for drive letter selection omit c:, I am not sure how to fix
this issue. The c: appears in windows explorer and all other places. Only
in the CM/DM is the letter missing. My computer seems to be working and
booting perfectly in all other ways. Please tell me how to fix the issue,
thanks
Click to expand...

I think we need to resolve some basics before addressing
your problem. Try this:
- Click Start / Run / cmd {OK}.
- Type this: set system
- Report the response in your reply.
 
thanks for the reply, hope you are still around, systemdrive is c: and system
root is c:\windows
 
Your system drive letter appears to OK, contratry to my
initial expectation. After reading your initial post again I admit
that I do not understand what your problem is. If it relates to
Windows then please reword your question, describing what
you see and where you see it. If it relates to Norton Ghost
then you should post it in a Norton Ghost newsgroup or check
the Ghost FAQs.
 
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