hard drive problems

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Monte Hounchell

I am running windows XP Home edition. With SP2

I had three hard drives and one dvd recorder hooked to my system.


all four drives were reconized and had letter assignments.

I decided to take two of the drives out... and I hooked up one drive
along with my dvd recorder drive.

I started up my system and formatted the new drive and installed
windows xp on it.

I then shut off the system and hooked up the other two drives.

I turned on the system and in Drive Management it shows the two new
drives and lists how much space is used and how much is free on each
of the two drives. BUT neither of these two drives have a drive letter
assigned to them.

They are not listed in My computer nor in the list of Explorer.

I can not access these drives and get to the data they contain.

Can anyone suggest to me what can be causing this? and how I might get
them to be reconized by windowsxp.

Thank you

Monte
 
In disk management you can right click on the drive in question and allocate
a drive letter.

hope that helps
Neil
 
when I go to disk management.. and right click.. the list of options
are greyed out.. and the only option left for me there is to delete
the partition.. which I do not want to do, as that drive is filled
with important files..
 
Did you ensure the master/slave configuration is correct or are you
connecting them exactly as you had them before.

Neil
 
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