Drive not showing a letter assignment

[Guest Rons86]

WindowsXP not showing one of my hard drives. It appears in Disk management

but won't let me assign letter, only options highlited are Delete Partition

and help. It shows the drives name and has all the correct info, just can't

assign letter. Thier is a lot of info on disk I need so deleteing partition

is NOT a option.

[Guest Ron Badour]

Re: Drive not showing a letter assignment

 

I worked on a PC with a problem like that and I finally ended up using a

file recovery program (Data Recovery Wizard) to back up the files and then

repartitioned and formatted the partition. There may be other ways of

fixing it so hang tight and wait for other responses if you don't have

recovery software.

 

--

Regards

 

Ron Badour

MS MVP 1997 - 2008

 

 

"Rons86" <Rons86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> WindowsXP not showing one of my hard drives. It appears in Disk management

> but won't let me assign letter, only options highlited are Delete

> Partition

> and help. It shows the drives name and has all the correct info, just

> can't

> assign letter. Thier is a lot of info on disk I need so deleteing

> partition

> is NOT a option.

[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: Drive not showing a letter assignment

 

In diskmgmt.msc,L.click the hd,go to actions,all,set as active.Reopen

actions,set drive letter/path,set letter.If tried before,open

system,advanced,

virtual memory,set hd as page file "let system manage",click set 2X,restart

pc,back in xp,retry diskmgmt..Also,move hd to other IDE connection,set jumper

pins as needed.

 

"Rons86" wrote:

> WindowsXP not showing one of my hard drives. It appears in Disk management

> but won't let me assign letter, only options highlited are Delete Partition

> and help. It shows the drives name and has all the correct info, just can't

> assign letter. Thier is a lot of info on disk I need so deleteing partition

> is NOT a option.

[Guest Lisa]

Re: Drive not showing a letter assignment

 

I don't know if this is feasible but maybe you can create a new partition

with a drive letter and copy all the info, then delete the old partition.

 

"Rons86" <Rons86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:050ECA2B-3673-494C-A092-F2DEE8C548D1@microsoft.com...

> WindowsXP not showing one of my hard drives. It appears in Disk management

> but won't let me assign letter, only options highlited are Delete

> Partition

> and help. It shows the drives name and has all the correct info, just

> can't

> assign letter. Thier is a lot of info on disk I need so deleteing

> partition

> is NOT a option.

[Guest windmap]

Re: Drive not showing a letter assignment

 

Try Assigning Drive letter using third party Disk management Programs like

Acronis Disk Director

Download the free trail at the address below.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/diskdirector/

 

"Rons86" <Rons86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:050ECA2B-3673-494C-A092-F2DEE8C548D1@microsoft.com...

> WindowsXP not showing one of my hard drives. It appears in Disk management

> but won't let me assign letter, only options highlited are Delete

> Partition

> and help. It shows the drives name and has all the correct info, just

> can't

> assign letter. Thier is a lot of info on disk I need so deleteing

> partition

> is NOT a option.

[Guest DrewClayton]

Re: Drive not showing a letter assignment

 

On Jun 8, 9:38 pm, Rons86 <Ron...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> WindowsXP not showing one of my hard drives. It appears in Disk management

> but won't let me assign letter, only options highlited are Delete Partition

> and help. It shows the drives name and has all the correct info, just can't

> assign letter. Thier is a lot of info on disk I need so deleteing partition

> is NOT a option.

 

is norton goback or systemworks installed?

 

can you try putting it in an external case (to back it up)?

[Guest Rons86]

RE: Drive not showing a letter assignment

 

 

 

Norton System works is installed but not GoBack

[Guest Rons86]

Re: Drive not showing a letter assignment

 

 

 

Also drive is a Sata drive. I have never had any good luck with them......