My Computer fails to display all installed hard drives

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Phil

I have 4 hard drives, and 1 CD drive in my Pentium 4, Windows 2000, SP4
system. In addition to the 2 on board IDE connections, I have a SIIG Ultra
ATA controller card that supports a 200gb drive.

I have partitioned most of the hard drives into smaller logical drives. I
have C, D, E, F, G, H, I as drive letters on 3 hard drives connected
directly to the motherboard. Drive J is the CD drive. Drive N is a mapped
network drive. Drive letter K is for the 4th 200gb drive connected to the
ATA controller card.

OK, so why is it that when I launch My Computer/Explorer.exe that only
drives C through J, plus N show up in the list of drives but not drive K?
Granted, I can manually type "K:\" and Explorer will dislay the
folders/files on drive K just fine, but why can't Windows detect and display
drive K in the My Computer view?
 
Are your volumes listed in Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk
Management?
 
Has the drive letter been hidden? Unhide it with TweakUI. Look on
Microsoft.com for PowerToys or TweakUI, if it isn't on the system.
 
Has the drive letter been hidden? Unhide it with TweakUI.

I used TweakUI, and yes, drive K was "unchecked." I placed a check mark
next to drive K, and hit Apply, but so far, drive K still does not show up
in My Computer.

Perhaps a reboot is in necessary?
 
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