Logical drive assignment woes: Report

[Guest]

I have two internal hard drives on my system. The mainboard BIOS and the
Device Manager within Control Panel recognize both drives as operational,
but My Computer and Windows Explorer do not recognize them.

I went into Disk Manager (in Administrative Tools) and found both disks
listed. However, the non recognized one only shows the volume name I gave it
and does not show a drive letter. (It does show that it is a healthy, active
drive and recognizes its size and free space.) When I right click on this
drive, the option to assign or change a letter is grayed out.

I purchased a USB external drive kit and installed the recalcitrant drive
inside. The drive shows up in the computer exactly as before and does not
allow for a letter assignment.

Is there something I'm missing in trying to get a drive letter assigned to
this drive?

Thanks!

 

[Manny Borges]

did you partition and format it?

--
Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who do understand binary
and those who don't.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

The drive is formatted with a single partition.

 

[Guest]

The problem may be is that it is marked as an active. Nprmally you can only
have one active partition. The key is to mark it as inactive. You can use
diskpart.exe (command line) to unmark it. Use diskpart /? for instructions.
Failind diskpart, try some third party disk partitioning software. If its
fat32 you may be able to use a 98 boot disk which has fdisk on it.