Guest Bill Fuller Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 I have a 500gb WD My Book that I am tryng to attach to a Windows Server 2003 server. It shows up under devices, but it is not showing as a disk or creating a drive letter. Is there some kind of security setting that is preventing this?
Guest nospam Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 Re: No drive letter for USB drive in Windows Server 2003 "Bill Fuller" <someone@nospam.com> wrote in news:OEc9ieiMIHA.4740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > I have a 500gb WD My Book that I am tryng to attach to a Windows > Server 2003 server. It shows up under devices, but it is not showing > as a disk or creating a drive letter. Is there some kind of security > setting that is preventing this? > Was it previously used on a Mac? I did this with one, and the Mac changed it in some way that Windows no longer assigned it a drive letter (I didn't really care, as it was really only for use on the Mac anyway, so I never bothered figuring this out). Windows didn't list the partion as unknown or foreign, it just showed in disk management with no letter. A repartition and format may be called for in this case?
Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 Re: No drive letter for USB drive in Windows Server 2003 >I have a 500gb WD My Book that I am tryng to attach to a Windows Server 2003 >server. It shows up under devices, but it is not showing as a disk or >creating a drive letter. Is there some kind of security setting that is >preventing this? Plug the USB in and fire up the Disk Manager in Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk management. I see this when CD drive letter have been previously taken by removable USB or Firewire drives. - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest Iain Posted November 29, 2007 Posted November 29, 2007 RE: No drive letter for USB drive in Windows Server 2003 I have a Server 2003 Enterprise Server with 4 SATA drives installed ALL primary partitions ... I too tried to fit an external drive via usb which does show up in the disk manager ... But you cannot have 5 primary partions.. this was from microsoft support. Which I have tested and is true.. if one mas configured as an exteneded partion ( which I tested on a new installation) I could then add an external drive. Hope this helps. -- Iain "Bill Fuller" wrote: > I have a 500gb WD My Book that I am tryng to attach to a Windows Server 2003 > server. It shows up under devices, but it is not showing as a disk or > creating a drive letter. Is there some kind of security setting that is > preventing this? > > >
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