Windows XP and no drive letter for secondary HD

[Emil]

The hard drive (c:\ drive)crashed, but it appears the
data is still intact (my daughter didn't back up as
requested). In an effort to salvage the data, I bought a
new drive, installed Windows XP Professional, and
installed the old drive as a slave. Everything works
fine, except I cannot assign a drive letter to the drive,
although I can clearly see it using Disk Management.

I am afraid to partition, because this would probably
destroy the very data I am trying to salvage.

Any thoughts on how to salvage the data?

With great appreciation,

Emil

 

[Rich Barry]

Emil, try installing the older drive as Master on the Secondary IDE
Channel on the Motherboard. You may
have to remove your Cdrom or other Optical Drives Temporarily