no letter assigned to drive

[Guest]

I am upgrading from windows 2k to xp. My previous setup was a c drive and d
drive both NTFS. I have installed xp on a new harddrive (now c) but would
like to have my d drive connected in xp. for some reason the drive is
recognized in the bios and is recognized in Disk Mgmt but there is no letter
assigned to the d drive. the letter assignment is not used by another drive
and if I right click on drive no selections are available but delete
partition. I do not want to lose the data on this disk so deleting is not an
option. The other really strange thing is that I have installed xp now 3
times on this machine and the other two times I installed xp there was no
problem with recognizing this drive. for some reason just now it has an
issue.
Thanks for any help you can offer

 

[jmi]

By chance what make is the missing drive? I've had the EXACT same
problem with XP and nobody has ever been able to resolve my problem!
I've always had that problem with my Western Digital 100 gig SE drives
(yep, both drives). The only thing I could do was reformat the
partition everytime I had that problem.
I hope you have a good backup someplace other than on that drive!

Jeff

 

[WTC]

I am upgrading from windows 2k to xp. My previous setup was a c drive and
d
drive both NTFS. I have installed xp on a new harddrive (now c) but
would
like to have my d drive connected in xp. for some reason the drive is
recognized in the bios and is recognized in Disk Mgmt but there is no
letter
assigned to the d drive. the letter assignment is not used by another
drive
and if I right click on drive no selections are available but delete
partition. I do not want to lose the data on this disk so deleting is not
an
option. The other really strange thing is that I have installed xp now 3
times on this machine and the other two times I installed xp there was no
problem with recognizing this drive. for some reason just now it has an
issue.
Thanks for any help you can offer

This drive might be hidden, download TweakUI and see if you can unhide the
drive.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Then in TweakUI go to My Computer>Drive and see if the drive is hidden.

 

[Guest]

The drive does not show up in the list under drive in tweakui.
This is mucho frustrating especially becuase this is the 3rd time I've had
to reinstall xp and the first time its doing this.
Please can anyone help. the drive shows up under management as active and
healthy but xp isn't assigning a drive letter to it.
Thanks
Luke

 

[WTC]

The drive does not show up in the list under drive in tweakui.
This is mucho frustrating especially becuase this is the 3rd time I've had
to reinstall xp and the first time its doing this.
Please can anyone help. the drive shows up under management as active and
healthy but xp isn't assigning a drive letter to it.
Thanks
Luke

Can right click on the drive and assign a drive letter to it in Disk
Management by selecting "Change Drive Letter and Path" then selecting "Add"

 

[Guest]

cant the add command is grayed out the only thing available is to delete.

 

[Jeff Ingram]

cant the add command is grayed out the only thing available is to delete.

Luke,

I'm wondering if you're still having this problem or did you find a
resolution? As I said in the earlier post to the newsgroup, I've had that
EXACT same problem several times! I've had it wth both of my Western
Digital 100gig SE drives. Right-clicking that partiton in Compter
Management never gave me the option to assign a drive letter to it either!
I've even called Dell and no one was ever able to give me an answer to this
problem. Out of curiosity, what's the make of your computer?

When I'd look at the partition using Partition Magic it showed the partition
as hidden. Don't know how it got that way, but when I tried to unhide the
partition, all the data was gone!

I have never been able to find a resolution EXCEPT for deleting that
partition and using a tool from Ontrack called Easy Recovery. There is an
option in there for recovering formated partitions. It's been able to
recover the files that were in "good condition" and not crosslinked.

If nothing else seems to work for you, I'd consider doing what I just
mentioned above.

Let us know how it's going.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

Jeff,
I've been unable to solve this issue. I am lucky that I still am able to
bounce back to the sys hard drive that has w2k on it and I've burned all the
data I need from this hard drive to dvds. I am going to try reformatting the
drive and see where that gets me.
I have a Dell dimension 800 Mhz and I don't remember the make of the drive.
I bought it from Dell's website.
good luck and sorry I can't be of more help.
Thanks
Luke