Missing drive letters in diskmanager

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Matt Stevens

I recently reinstalled windows xp professional after a
disk crash.

My computer has two disks (1 x 200gb) and (1 x 120gb)
both plugged into a motherboard based promise raid
controller (although not using raid). The disks show up
in "My Computer" as C: and G:.

However, in disk manager, neither disk has a drive
letter. The "change drive letters and paths" dialog is
empty. Trying to add a letter to the "C" drive allows me
to add letters from J: onwards (first available drive
letter). I can not add C: If I try and mount the second
hard disk into an empty NTFS folder, the "Browse for
Drive Path" dialog is empty. All CD-Roms etc do have
letters and appear to work correctly.

Does anyone know how to repair or "hack" the drive
letters?

Appeciate any advice.

Matt.
 
I have the exact same problem. I installed Partition
Magic 8; and since then I experience the same thing you
are talking about. I want to remove drive letters from
hidden partitions. In my computer, they show up. In disk
manager, they are blank. The closest I got is in the
registry, I show Hkey-local machine-system mounted
devices and another that shows mounted device1. They have
the exact same data. I remember from the old 98 days that
there was a duplicate of data like this with a hard
drive, and you had to delete one of the duplicates. But I
can only guess if that is what needs to be done here, or
if it should, which one. This problem is really making me
crazy, and I have not seen any help in the microsoft web
site so far. Good luck looking, this is really a pain. I
don't get any errors. I just show drive letters in my
computer that ZI want to remove, and no way to remove it
in drive manager or diskpart (a comman line editor).
 
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