Guest Tony P. Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 Hello, I have a Dell 8600 Inspiron running WinXP/SP3. The laptop has a 60Gb internal drive, a DVD drive, and a USB external drive. The 2 disk drives are both single partition. I was checking the drives in disk management and noticed that the 2 disk drives didn't show their drive letters. The DVD drive letter was listed in the disk management window. According to the disk management window, the 2 disk drives are unmounted. But this can't be true because the laptop boots normally and I can see all of the drive letters when I open My Computer or Explorer. Is there some way that I can restore these drive letters in disk management? -- Thanks, Tony For replies, please correct my email address.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 Re: Disk Management "Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:Oo438ms$IHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > I have a Dell 8600 Inspiron running WinXP/SP3. The laptop has a 60Gb > internal drive, a DVD drive, and a USB external drive. The 2 disk drives > are both single partition. I was checking the drives in disk management > and noticed that the 2 disk drives didn't show their drive letters. The > DVD drive letter was listed in the disk management window. According to > the disk management window, the 2 disk drives are unmounted. But this > can't be true because the laptop boots normally and I can see all of the > drive letters when I open My Computer or Explorer. Is there some way that > I can restore these drive letters in disk management? > > -- > Thanks, > Tony > For replies, please correct my email address. You can right-click them to assign drive letters.
Guest Tony P. Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 Re: Disk Management The drive letters that show up in My Computer are not listed in the available drive letter list. I think that the disk management utility knows that the 2 drive letters in question have already been assigned. I could re-assign different drive letters but I am afraid that I may mess up the boot up sequence by doing this. I'm guessing that there is may be a bug in the disk management utility, possibly caused by SP3. As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to be causing a problem right now, so I will just leave it as is. Thanks again. > > You can right-click them to assign drive letters. >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 Re: Disk Management "Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:%23uC4Mwt$IHA.1016@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > The drive letters that show up in My Computer are not listed in the > available drive letter list. I think that the disk management utility > knows that the 2 drive letters in question have already been assigned. I > could re-assign different drive letters but I am afraid that I may mess up > the boot up sequence by doing this. I'm guessing that there is may be a > bug in the disk management utility, possibly caused by SP3. As far as I > can tell, it doesn't seem to be causing a problem right now, so I will > just leave it as is. > > Thanks again. > Suspecting a bug in Disk Management is rather premature. It is far more likely that the letters are already assigned, probably by a background process such as a scheduled task.
Guest Gerry Posted August 15, 2008 Posted August 15, 2008 Re: Disk Management Tony TweakUi might be worth a try. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp In TweakUi select My Computer, Drives. Also the Dive Letter option. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony P. wrote: > The drive letters that show up in My Computer are not listed in the > available drive letter list. I think that the disk management utility > knows that the 2 drive letters in question have already been > assigned. I could re-assign different drive letters but I am afraid > that I may mess up the boot up sequence by doing this. I'm guessing > that there is may be a bug in the disk management utility, possibly > caused by SP3. As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to be causing a > problem right now, so I will just leave it as is. > > Thanks again. > > >> >> You can right-click them to assign drive letters.
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