No Drive Letter Assigned

G

Guest

Similar to hogislander's post on 2/8/06, but with some differences. I am
running XP with NTFS on the master drive. I just added a second drive (I
want the data from it), which is FAT32. Microsoft claims that XP should work
with FAT32, but the drive doesn't show up in Explorer.

If I go to cmd prompt and enter e: (my primary drive takes up c: and d:), I
get 'The device is not ready,' [If I enter f:, I get 'The system cannot find
the drive specified'] This is basically confirmed by Disk Management, where
the drive shows up as 'basic FAT32 partition, healthy(active);' however, I
cannot assign a drive letter (that option is grayed out).

If I go into 'diskpart' the drive shows up as 'Hidden: Yes,' and shows 1
partition which it claims is the entire disk (4GB), but it also indicates
that there is 'No volume associated with this partition'

One interesting tidbit: In disk management:
'volume list' shows capacity as 955MB, 60MB free; but 'graphical view' or
'disk list' shows capacity as 4.03GB, 0MB unallocated.

I want the data on the drive, that's it. Any ideas? Thanks.
 
G

Guest

well, that is the easy solution, except that i lose all the data on that
drive (which is my objective)

M and D said:
Format the drive.

Steven

jdevola said:
Similar to hogislander's post on 2/8/06, but with some differences. I am
running XP with NTFS on the master drive. I just added a second drive (I
want the data from it), which is FAT32. Microsoft claims that XP should work
with FAT32, but the drive doesn't show up in Explorer.

If I go to cmd prompt and enter e: (my primary drive takes up c: and d:), I
get 'The device is not ready,' [If I enter f:, I get 'The system cannot find
the drive specified'] This is basically confirmed by Disk Management, where
the drive shows up as 'basic FAT32 partition, healthy(active);' however, I
cannot assign a drive letter (that option is grayed out).

If I go into 'diskpart' the drive shows up as 'Hidden: Yes,' and shows 1
partition which it claims is the entire disk (4GB), but it also indicates
that there is 'No volume associated with this partition'

One interesting tidbit: In disk management:
'volume list' shows capacity as 955MB, 60MB free; but 'graphical view' or
'disk list' shows capacity as 4.03GB, 0MB unallocated.

I want the data on the drive, that's it. Any ideas? Thanks.
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G

Guest

(the data is my objective, not destroying it)

M and D said:
Format the drive.

Steven

jdevola said:
Similar to hogislander's post on 2/8/06, but with some differences. I am
running XP with NTFS on the master drive. I just added a second drive (I
want the data from it), which is FAT32. Microsoft claims that XP should work
with FAT32, but the drive doesn't show up in Explorer.

If I go to cmd prompt and enter e: (my primary drive takes up c: and d:), I
get 'The device is not ready,' [If I enter f:, I get 'The system cannot find
the drive specified'] This is basically confirmed by Disk Management, where
the drive shows up as 'basic FAT32 partition, healthy(active);' however, I
cannot assign a drive letter (that option is grayed out).

If I go into 'diskpart' the drive shows up as 'Hidden: Yes,' and shows 1
partition which it claims is the entire disk (4GB), but it also indicates
that there is 'No volume associated with this partition'

One interesting tidbit: In disk management:
'volume list' shows capacity as 955MB, 60MB free; but 'graphical view' or
'disk list' shows capacity as 4.03GB, 0MB unallocated.

I want the data on the drive, that's it. Any ideas? Thanks.
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G

Guest

M and D (is that mom & dad?)
well, looks like i may have to format that drive, unless there is some
sophistocated software that can fix the drive and spare my data...
i swapped out the drive for another, and that one works fine! hurray!
peace
-joe

M and D said:
Format the drive.

Steven

jdevola said:
Similar to hogislander's post on 2/8/06, but with some differences. I am
running XP with NTFS on the master drive. I just added a second drive (I
want the data from it), which is FAT32. Microsoft claims that XP should work
with FAT32, but the drive doesn't show up in Explorer.

If I go to cmd prompt and enter e: (my primary drive takes up c: and d:), I
get 'The device is not ready,' [If I enter f:, I get 'The system cannot find
the drive specified'] This is basically confirmed by Disk Management, where
the drive shows up as 'basic FAT32 partition, healthy(active);' however, I
cannot assign a drive letter (that option is grayed out).

If I go into 'diskpart' the drive shows up as 'Hidden: Yes,' and shows 1
partition which it claims is the entire disk (4GB), but it also indicates
that there is 'No volume associated with this partition'

One interesting tidbit: In disk management:
'volume list' shows capacity as 955MB, 60MB free; but 'graphical view' or
'disk list' shows capacity as 4.03GB, 0MB unallocated.

I want the data on the drive, that's it. Any ideas? Thanks.
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A

Andy

What's the history of this drive? Have you tried unhiding the
partition or volume?
 

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