XP Formatted External Drive as EISA Partition

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Ron Mlotek

My USB MAXTOR 120 gig external drive has suddenly been
formatted as an "EISA Configuration". Explorer will not
see the drive. I cannot access the files directly.

XP Device Manager reports the drive is "healthy", but it
bears no letter designation. Shareware disk utilities can
see the data files still present. It can even open the
files. They just cannot be accessed by XP.

Any solutions?

n.b. This occurrence was the aftermath of some sort of
system crash, which required XP re-install. It may have
been a virus attack. It could never be determined.
Everything else works fine, just the Maxtor drive is the
problem.
 
EISA is not a format type but rather an early replacement for the ISA slot
before PCI came along. If you have an older PC this may be the type of slots
it has, and perhaps your IDE controller is plugged into one. I don't think
this has anything to do with your trouble though. It sounds like you simply
need to assign a drive letter to your hard disk. Run drivemgmt.msc and you
should see the 120GB partition listed here. If so right click on it, select
"Change drive letters and paths", then Add, and assign it an available
letter. You should now be able to see the drive in Windows Explorer.
 
Sorry, that should be diskmgmt.msc

Alex Marshall said:
EISA is not a format type but rather an early replacement for the ISA slot
before PCI came along. If you have an older PC this may be the type of slots
it has, and perhaps your IDE controller is plugged into one. I don't think
this has anything to do with your trouble though. It sounds like you simply
need to assign a drive letter to your hard disk. Run drivemgmt.msc and you
should see the 120GB partition listed here. If so right click on it, select
"Change drive letters and paths", then Add, and assign it an available
letter. You should now be able to see the drive in Windows Explorer.
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