How to assign drive letter

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amshah

Hi,

I recently re-installed windows XP and my internal slave drive does
not show up in Explorer. I was told assigning a drive letter should
fix this problem. I opened the Disk Management tool and see the drive
- shows it is "healthy" and "active", but when I select it the option
"change drive letter and assign paths" is not selectable. Also it does
not indicate what filesystem it is and the drive size is ~190G
compared to the actual size of 320G.

Appreciate any help on how to fix this. I am logged in as user with
administrator permissions (as per Contol Panel->User a/c)
 
Hi,

I recently re-installed windows XP and my internal slave drive does
not show up in Explorer. I was told assigning a drive letter should
fix this problem. I opened the Disk Management tool and see the drive
- shows it is "healthy" and "active", but when I select it the option
"change drive letter and assign paths" is not selectable. Also it does
not indicate what filesystem it is and the drive size is ~190G
compared to the actual size of 320G.

Appreciate any help on how to fix this. I am logged in as user with
administrator permissions (as per Contol Panel->User a/c)
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Have you installed SP1 or SP2 ?

Paul
 
SP2
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The fact that it isn't showing the file system, doesn't look good.
It almost sounds like the disk partitioning has changed. Like, perhaps,
a 137GB partition has been made or something, leaving ~190GB left
over ?

Paul
 
Is there any files on the drive that are important to you? If not, try to
format the drive.
 
Is there any files on the drive that are important to you? If not, try to
format the drive.
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Yes I do have data on the drive and would not like to reformat unless
I can copy it over. The only option in the Disk management i have is
"delete partition" would this cause any problem?
 
Yes it would, you will lose all your data. Do you have access to another
computer, if so set the drive up there and backup all the data.
 
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