Hard Drive doesn't receive a drive letter

[Guest]

I had to reinstall XP over the weekend because it was continually having troubles booting up. I had been running all of my programs on a 40GB drive and have all my data saved on a 160GB drive. The two drives were on one cable as master and slave. This setup worked perfectly for 8 months.

After reinstalling windows, the 160GB shows up in the BIOS and under disk management but fails to receive a drive letter - which makes accessing my data impossible. Any one know how to resolve this?

 

[Robin]

Have you forgotten to reinstall any IDE drivers for your motherboard??

Robin

I had to reinstall XP over the weekend because it was continually having

troubles booting up. I had been running all of my programs on a 40GB drive
and have all my data saved on a 160GB drive. The two drives were on one
cable as master and slave. This setup worked perfectly for 8 months.

After reinstalling windows, the 160GB shows up in the BIOS and under disk

management but fails to receive a drive letter - which makes accessing my
data impossible. Any one know how to resolve this?

 

[Richard Goh]

Did you perchance format the 40 GB drive as FAT 32? If so, it cannot read
the 160 GB NTFS drive.
Check your 40 GB drive and if it is FAT32, convert it to NTFS.

I had to reinstall XP over the weekend because it was continually having

troubles booting up. I had been running all of my programs on a 40GB drive
and have all my data saved on a 160GB drive. The two drives were on one
cable as master and slave. This setup worked perfectly for 8 months.

After reinstalling windows, the 160GB shows up in the BIOS and under disk

management but fails to receive a drive letter - which makes accessing my
data impossible. Any one know how to resolve this?

 

[Mikael]

I had a similiar problem in the beginning with my new HD

I found a solution though
under the disk management tools
RMB my computer--->handle (I don't know what the proper name is in english
version of xp) --->disc manager
if you see your harddrive but they don't have a volume letter... and says
something below like an error
you could Reactivate the drive...
now it works ... atleast for me it worked =)

and like another one said here below
if you BOOT on a FAT32 partiotion you can't read NTFS
but if you boot on a NTFS you can read both

I had to reinstall XP over the weekend because it was continually having

troubles booting up. I had been running all of my programs on a 40GB drive
and have all my data saved on a 160GB drive. The two drives were on one
cable as master and slave. This setup worked perfectly for 8 months.

After reinstalling windows, the 160GB shows up in the BIOS and under disk

management but fails to receive a drive letter - which makes accessing my
data impossible. Any one know how to resolve this?