drive letters missing can't change in disk management

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Here's the story, I'll make it brief
Using Win xp home ed. with 2 ide drives on primary and 2 ide drives on controller card. The 2 on the controller card were visible before I ghosted the primary back to an earlier state (in fact the ghost file is on one of the drives). Now the 2 drives on the controller card show in device manager with no problems, the controller card I updated the driver and it shows fine in device manager. Both drives show in disk management as healthy and active NTFS, but neither have a drive letter and right clicking on them shows my only option as deleting the partition it does not allow me to change the drive path or letter. I can see them both in windows recovery console using map. Neither of the drives because they don't have a drive letter show up in "my computer". Help I do not want to delete the partition. I want to get the data off these disks. I've tried them in other computers and they do the same thing. Western Digital says it is a XP problem not theirs. Help!!! Please :(
 
Thanks Andre
I am able to see the disk, partition and volume information for these disks but when I go to assign a drive letter to that volume it states the volume you specified is not valid or does not exist, use the refresh command to refresh your information. I tried that and it doesn't do anything so I tried rescan and it still shows everything fine. After I did all this though it did put a * next to the volume. Not sure what this is now. If you know anything about this please let me know. Thanks for your help. Oh and thanks for the link on diskpart it was very helpful
Noelle
 
When I do detail partition it states it is hidden=yes my other drives are not. How do I unhide it. Maybe thats the problem. Thanks for any help
Noelle
 
I found an article in microsoft finally about it. Its with Roxio go back. microsoft knowledge base article 330140 It worked! Thanks for your help
Noelle
 
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