Not getting drive letter

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I bought an IDE drive and put it into a USB enclosure. When I insert
the USB cable, Windows (I have XP) does not automatically assign it a
drive letter. It does come up in the system tray as USB Storage
Device. How can I:

1) Have Windows automatically assign a drive letter; or
2) Write a program to assign it myself

TIA!!
 
RM said:
I bought an IDE drive and put it into a USB enclosure. When I insert
the USB cable, Windows (I have XP) does not automatically assign it a
drive letter. It does come up in the system tray as USB Storage
Device. How can I:

1) Have Windows automatically assign a drive letter; or
2) Write a program to assign it myself

TIA!!
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A format might help if its a new disk
ted
 
RM said:
I bought an IDE drive and put it into a USB enclosure. When I insert
the USB cable, Windows (I have XP) does not automatically assign it a
drive letter. It does come up in the system tray as USB Storage
Device. How can I:

1) Have Windows automatically assign a drive letter; or
2) Write a program to assign it myself

TIA!!
Click to expand...

Go to disk management.

Odie
 
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