EHD not given Drive letter but shows in Disk Management

[Trevor]

My Maxtor EHD Personal Storage 3200 is not given a drive letter and I can't
access it, though it is shown as Disk 1 in Drive Management. (right clicking
to allocate a drive letter not an option, it's not there).

It worked finer a couple of weeks ago on an XP machine in England (I'm in
France). Then I got a new Vistas PC and it wouldn't work with that, but
would still work with the XP Pro machine. Now I'm here it doesn't work in
either a desktop or laptop both running XP Home edition.

I started to run Seagates File Recovery programme. After 24 hours it had
only scanned 20%. It's unlikely to go for 5 days without needing booting as
I need it for work.

Disk Management is showing Disk 1 unknown 279.47 Gb Not initialised.
Unallocated.

How can I get to my data.?

 

[Big Al]

My Maxtor EHD Personal Storage 3200 is not given a drive letter and I can't
access it, though it is shown as Disk 1 in Drive Management. (right clicking
to allocate a drive letter not an option, it's not there).

It worked finer a couple of weeks ago on an XP machine in England (I'm in
France). Then I got a new Vistas PC and it wouldn't work with that, but
would still work with the XP Pro machine. Now I'm here it doesn't work in
either a desktop or laptop both running XP Home edition.

I started to run Seagates File Recovery programme. After 24 hours it had
only scanned 20%. It's unlikely to go for 5 days without needing booting as
I need it for work.

Disk Management is showing Disk 1 unknown 279.47 Gb Not initialised.
Unallocated.

How can I get to my data.?

After reading your first paragraph, I was remembered that i had a thumb
drive that was drive letter G: on my PC. But I had mapped a network
drive to drive letter G:/ Since you can't have two, the thumb drive
would not show up. Yet it was in the drive management.

Exactly like your relay, but after reading the remainder of your
message, I'm not sure its the same, but I offer it as my only input.
If it helps..... great.
Delete the drive map or assign the drive another letter was my fix.

 

[Trevor]

After reading your first paragraph, I was remembered that i had a thumb
drive that was drive letter G: on my PC. But I had mapped a network
drive to drive letter G:/ Since you can't have two, the thumb drive
would not show up. Yet it was in the drive management.

Exactly like your relay, but after reading the remainder of your message,
I'm not sure its the same, but I offer it as my only input. If it
helps..... great.
Delete the drive map or assign the drive another letter was my fix.

The EHD has always been assigned K: in any PC I've used it on, but I haven't
anything using K:.

I might add that if I uninstall it in Device manager, then reboot, it goes
through the found new software finding drivers then your new hardware has
been successfully installed etc - it just isn't there!