Cannot Assign Drive Letter

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Joe M.

Running WinXP home. Just ditched a problematic deathstar 60GXP for a
Seagate 120 Gb and reinstalled WinXP. I'm trying to assign a drive letter
to my 2nd HD (slave drive) which has important data on it. It's a 120 Gb
Western Digital and while it shows up in the bios and under disk management
software, I cannot assign a drive letter (it's appearing in disk manager as
HD1, ntfs partition, "active").

I've googled this to no end and cannot find a solution. Any ideas? Is
there a disk partition software that can at least get the data off before I
reformat?

Thanks.
 
Running WinXP home. Just ditched a problematic deathstar 60GXP for a
Seagate 120 Gb and reinstalled WinXP. I'm trying to assign a drive letter
to my 2nd HD (slave drive) which has important data on it. It's a 120 Gb
Western Digital and while it shows up in the bios and under disk management
software, I cannot assign a drive letter (it's appearing in disk manager as
HD1, ntfs partition, "active").
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If you select the drive in disk management and right click, does it not
give the option to change drive letter and paths?

Mike.
 
Michael Hawes said:
If you select the drive in disk management and right click, does it not
give the option to change drive letter and paths?
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No, my only choice is to format the disk. It has something to do with the
fact that it's an "active" disk or an MBR disk, I'm frankly confused and out
of ideas after reading threads on various forums where the same problem was
described but no solutions presented.

I was hoping someone here had the same problem and actually solved it. ;)
 
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