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Windows wont assign drive letter

Started by xager8on , Nov 20 2005 08:00 PM

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xager8on

Posted 20 November 2005 - 08:00 PM

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Ok, Before I had a Hard Drive crash I had 2 Hard drives. The Primary died and I used the slaved as my Backup. However, due to Spyware issues I did not perform an ASR from this Backup. I then installed the new drive as my primary. After Windows XP was reloaded the slaved drive is not being assigned a drive letter.

Windows XP Device Manager contains the Slave Drive. The Disk Management sees the Volume as DesktopD but hasnt assigned a Drive letter, NTFS, Helathy(Active). I have options to convert to a Dynamic Disk or delete the partition. Obviously Id prefer not to do this.

Anyone have an idea how to resolve this without losing the information on the drive?

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wannabe1

Posted 20 November 2005 - 08:13 PM

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Hi xager8on...Welcome to G2G!

Have you tried This Procedure?

wannabe1

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xager8on

Posted 20 November 2005 - 08:40 PM

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Unfortunatley the only choice I have is Delete partition or Help. All other selections on the menu are greyed out.

Western Digital diagnostics say that the drive is fine.