Guest Ed Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 When managment console is open, disk management shows Local Disk with no drive letter. In Windows Explorer it shows as C: and the same for many other applications. If I right-click on Local Disk and select Channge Drive Letter, C is not available. When I attempt to back up this drive using Norton Ghost 12, it shows as an unmounted drive thereby eleiminating certain option available only to mounted drives. How do I get the drive letter C: to appear? -- Ed
Guest Gerry Posted August 12, 2007 Posted August 12, 2007 Re: MMC Disk Management Ed Has C been appended to another partition? It is normally allocated to a System Partition. Is the computer dual or multi booting? -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed wrote: > When managment console is open, disk management shows Local Disk with > no drive letter. In Windows Explorer it shows as C: and the same for > many other applications. If I right-click on Local Disk and select > Channge Drive Letter, C is not available. > > When I attempt to back up this drive using Norton Ghost 12, it shows > as an unmounted drive thereby eleiminating certain option available > only to mounted drives. > > How do I get the drive letter C: to appear?
Guest Ed Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: MMC Disk Management Gerry, Thanks for getting back to me. It is the system (boot) disk. I had Norton Ghost 9 set to do 1 complete back up each week with incrementals in between. Then I installed an HP networable ink jet printer and Norton reverted to only full back ups Recently, I upgraded to version 12, but it said that it could only perform "independent recovery points (full back ups) because I selected an unmounted drive". I opened MMC and selected Disk Management. My system drive shows as Local-Basic-NTFS, but has no drive letter. Other PCs show as drive C: The problem PC is a Dell with C; formatted as NTFS and two other shares with back up sofware formatted as FAT and reinstall files formatted as FAT32. After the HP was installed, all three of these shares show with drive letters in Windows Explorer, but no drive letters in Disk Management. Mike -- Ed "Gerry" wrote: > Ed > > Has C been appended to another partition? It is normally allocated to a > System Partition. > > Is the computer dual or multi booting? > > -- > > > > Hope this helps. > > Gerry > ~~~~ > FCA > Stourport, England > Enquire, plan and execute > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Ed wrote: > > When managment console is open, disk management shows Local Disk with > > no drive letter. In Windows Explorer it shows as C: and the same for > > many other applications. If I right-click on Local Disk and select > > Channge Drive Letter, C is not available. > > > > When I attempt to back up this drive using Norton Ghost 12, it shows > > as an unmounted drive thereby eleiminating certain option available > > only to mounted drives. > > > > How do I get the drive letter C: to appear? > > >
Guest Gerry Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: MMC Disk Management Ed You might look at TweakUi. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp In TweakUi select My Computer, Drives. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ed wrote: > Gerry, > > Thanks for getting back to me. > > It is the system (boot) disk. I had Norton Ghost 9 set to do 1 > complete back up each week with incrementals in between. Then I > installed an HP networable ink jet printer and Norton reverted to > only full back ups > > Recently, I upgraded to version 12, but it said that it could only > perform "independent recovery points (full back ups) because I > selected an unmounted drive". > > I opened MMC and selected Disk Management. My system drive shows as > Local-Basic-NTFS, but has no drive letter. Other PCs show as drive C: > > The problem PC is a Dell with C; formatted as NTFS and two other > shares with back up sofware formatted as FAT and reinstall files > formatted as FAT32. After the HP was installed, all three of these > shares show with drive letters in Windows Explorer, but no drive > letters in Disk Management. > > Mike > >> Ed >> >> Has C been appended to another partition? It is normally allocated >> to a System Partition. >> >> Is the computer dual or multi booting? >> >> -- >> >> >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Gerry >> ~~~~ >> FCA >> Stourport, England >> Enquire, plan and execute >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Ed wrote: >>> When managment console is open, disk management shows Local Disk >>> with no drive letter. In Windows Explorer it shows as C: and the >>> same for many other applications. If I right-click on Local Disk >>> and select Channge Drive Letter, C is not available. >>> >>> When I attempt to back up this drive using Norton Ghost 12, it shows >>> as an unmounted drive thereby eleiminating certain option available >>> only to mounted drives. >>> >>> How do I get the drive letter C: to appear?
Guest Ed Posted August 17, 2007 Posted August 17, 2007 Re: MMC Disk Management Gerry, It hasn't fixed the problem, but thanks for trying to help. Would there be any other suggestions? Ed -- Ed "Gerry" wrote: > Ed > > You might look at TweakUi. > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp > > In TweakUi select My Computer, Drives. > > -- > > > > Hope this helps. > > Gerry > ~~~~ > FCA > Stourport, England > Enquire, plan and execute > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Ed wrote: > > Gerry, > > > > Thanks for getting back to me. > > > > It is the system (boot) disk. I had Norton Ghost 9 set to do 1 > > complete back up each week with incrementals in between. Then I > > installed an HP networable ink jet printer and Norton reverted to > > only full back ups > > > > Recently, I upgraded to version 12, but it said that it could only > > perform "independent recovery points (full back ups) because I > > selected an unmounted drive". > > > > I opened MMC and selected Disk Management. My system drive shows as > > Local-Basic-NTFS, but has no drive letter. Other PCs show as drive C: > > > > The problem PC is a Dell with C; formatted as NTFS and two other > > shares with back up sofware formatted as FAT and reinstall files > > formatted as FAT32. After the HP was installed, all three of these > > shares show with drive letters in Windows Explorer, but no drive > > letters in Disk Management. > > > > Mike > > > >> Ed > >> > >> Has C been appended to another partition? It is normally allocated > >> to a System Partition. > >> > >> Is the computer dual or multi booting? > >> > >> -- > >> > >> > >> > >> Hope this helps. > >> > >> Gerry > >> ~~~~ > >> FCA > >> Stourport, England > >> Enquire, plan and execute > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >> > >> Ed wrote: > >>> When managment console is open, disk management shows Local Disk > >>> with no drive letter. In Windows Explorer it shows as C: and the > >>> same for many other applications. If I right-click on Local Disk > >>> and select Channge Drive Letter, C is not available. > >>> > >>> When I attempt to back up this drive using Norton Ghost 12, it shows > >>> as an unmounted drive thereby eleiminating certain option available > >>> only to mounted drives. > >>> > >>> How do I get the drive letter C: to appear? > > >
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