Logical drives

[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.

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

Thanks!

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

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

Have you formatted it?

 

[Guest]

Hi,

The drive should be formatted. I tried to condense my tale of woe, but the
master/slave relationship of the two were originally reversed. I had a
Windows malfunction on the current slave unit (but was the master unit
earlier), which I could not repair from the WinXP repair console. So, I took
the second drive and reformatted it and installed WinXP on it and hoped to
retrieve the data files from the original master unit (now the slave unit).
Some of Norton's utilities showed that the data files on the original master
were intact but I could not copy them.

I was puzzled that the volume name survived and the disk manager showed that
28% of the drive was still free, etc., so I hoped I would be able to copy the
My Documents folder and put this nightmare behind me.

Do you think all is lost and that is why it doesn't register?

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

The drive should be formatted. I tried to condense my tale of woe,
but the master/slave relationship of the two were originally
reversed. I had a Windows malfunction on the current slave unit (but
was the master unit earlier), which I could not repair from the WinXP
repair console. So, I took the second drive and reformatted it and
installed WinXP on it and hoped to retrieve the data files from the
original master unit (now the slave unit). Some of Norton's utilities
showed that the data files on the original master were intact but I
could not copy them.

I was puzzled that the volume name survived and the disk manager
showed that 28% of the drive was still free, etc., so I hoped I would
be able to copy the My Documents folder and put this nightmare behind
me.

Do you think all is lost and that is why it doesn't register?

Sorry, then I don't know the answer to your problem. Looking at
googlegroups, I did come across this
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ic.windowsxp.*&rnum=14&hl=en#4fa7d0a88934f9d3

or http://tinyurl.com/fbzyc

which might possibly help you, but I'm not sure.

Perhaps someone else here has a suggestion.

 

[POP]

Sorry, then I don't know the answer to your problem.
Looking at googlegroups, I did come across this
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ic.windowsxp.*&rnum=14&hl=en#4fa7d0a88934f9d3

or http://tinyurl.com/fbzyc

which might possibly help you, but I'm not sure.

Perhaps someone else here has a suggestion.

If the two drives are from different manufacturers or models, you
might have to open your system BIOS and properly assign the
second drive. Maybe the working one too, if it's only working by
coincidence.
"Automatic" is usually the best setting for the drive
detections. Check over the info and see if it all looks right.
And of course, you have double checked the mastes/slave
settings on the drves themselves, right?

Just a thought,
Pop`