How to assign drive letter

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amshah

Hi,

I recently re-installed windows XP and my internal slave drive does
not show up in Explorer. I was told assigning a drive letter should
fix this problem. I opened the Disk Management tool and see the drive
- shows it is "healthy" and "active", but when I select it the option
"change drive letter and assign paths" is not selectable. Also it does
not indicate what filesystem it is and the drive size is ~190G
compared to the actual size of 320G.

Appreciate any help on how to fix this. I am logged in as user with
administrator permissions (as per Contol Panel->User a/c)
 
P

Paul

Hi,

I recently re-installed windows XP and my internal slave drive does
not show up in Explorer. I was told assigning a drive letter should
fix this problem. I opened the Disk Management tool and see the drive
- shows it is "healthy" and "active", but when I select it the option
"change drive letter and assign paths" is not selectable. Also it does
not indicate what filesystem it is and the drive size is ~190G
compared to the actual size of 320G.

Appreciate any help on how to fix this. I am logged in as user with
administrator permissions (as per Contol Panel->User a/c)
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Have you installed SP1 or SP2 ?

Paul
 
P

Paul

SP2
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The fact that it isn't showing the file system, doesn't look good.
It almost sounds like the disk partitioning has changed. Like, perhaps,
a 137GB partition has been made or something, leaving ~190GB left
over ?

Paul
 
P

PaulM

Is there any files on the drive that are important to you? If not, try to
format the drive.
 
A

amshah

Is there any files on the drive that are important to you? If not, try to
format the drive.
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Yes I do have data on the drive and would not like to reformat unless
I can copy it over. The only option in the Disk management i have is
"delete partition" would this cause any problem?
 
P

PaulM

Yes it would, you will lose all your data. Do you have access to another
computer, if so set the drive up there and backup all the data.
 

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