Guest John Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 System - Win XP home I have a 20G system HD from an old Win 98 machine where I am trying to retrieve some files. I put the drive in a HD enclosure - USB connection. When I powered the enclosure up - I see the message "New Hardware etc" - I see the HD description - "Quantum Fireball etc" - and finally - "your new hardware is installed and ready for use". Except - I cant't see the drive from "my computer". I look in Admin Tools > Computer Management>Disk management and see it listed - but in the "volume" column there is no letter assigned - just blank .. In the other columns it lists : Partition Basic FAT32 Healthy(Active) Capacity - free space etc Everything seems normal - except I can't see the contents of the drive. Any ideas?? John
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: no drive letter assigned for UBS HD enclosure "John" <jj.shine@att.net> wrote in message news:Mo5Ni.5877$n92.5026@trnddc06... > System - Win XP home > > > I have a 20G system HD from an old Win 98 machine where I am trying to > retrieve some files. I put the drive in a HD enclosure - USB connection. > When I powered the enclosure up - I see the message "New Hardware etc" - I > see the HD description - "Quantum Fireball etc" - and finally - "your new > hardware is installed and ready for use". > > Except - > > I cant't see the drive from "my computer". > > I look in Admin Tools > Computer Management>Disk management and see it > listed - but in the "volume" column there is no letter assigned - just > blank . In the other columns it lists : > > Partition > Basic > FAT32 > Healthy(Active) > Capacity - free space etc > > Everything seems normal - except I can't see the contents of the drive. > > Any ideas?? > > John > While in Disk Managemen, right-click the disk and assign a drive letter.
Guest John Posted October 4, 2007 Posted October 4, 2007 Re: no drive letter assigned for UBS HD enclosure Only right click choices available are: Delete Partition and Help "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:OPTeWkoBIHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > > "John" <jj.shine@att.net> wrote in message > news:Mo5Ni.5877$n92.5026@trnddc06... >> System - Win XP home >> >> >> I have a 20G system HD from an old Win 98 machine where I am trying to >> retrieve some files. I put the drive in a HD enclosure - USB connection. >> When I powered the enclosure up - I see the message "New Hardware etc" - >> I see the HD description - "Quantum Fireball etc" - and finally - "your >> new hardware is installed and ready for use". >> >> Except - >> >> I cant't see the drive from "my computer". >> >> I look in Admin Tools > Computer Management>Disk management and see it >> listed - but in the "volume" column there is no letter assigned - just >> blank . In the other columns it lists : >> >> Partition >> Basic >> FAT32 >> Healthy(Active) >> Capacity - free space etc >> >> Everything seems normal - except I can't see the contents of the drive. >> >> Any ideas?? >> >> John >> > > While in Disk Managemen, right-click the disk and assign a drive letter. >
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