hd not viewable using Windows explorer

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From: sgopus (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:14:27 -0800

Nevermind, I found out what the problem was, for some
reason it deleted the drive letter, so I just assigned
another drive letter and was able to view it.
can't figure out why this happened...

>-----Original Message-----
>This is really bizarre, I have a multiple boot system
>ME/W2k/XP I have been able to view all my hd's with all
>systems until just recently, I installed XP about a week
>ago, and have been working on creating slip stream XP
with
>SP1, and copying files to this one HD, under XP things
>went fine till I booted back to W2k, suddenly I cant see
>this one hd, using WE, I can see it using disk management
>and I checked security to ensure all have authority, they
>do, I booted back to XP and checked security there, all
>viewers can access the drive, sharing is allowed, I even
>tried marking it private, booting, and then changing it
>back to sharing all users, still can't see it under w2k
>using WE, but can be viewed using disk management,
>properties show as healthy and active, it's only used as
a
>data partition, it seems xp in writing to this drive has
>changed the properties of security somehow and I cant get
>it back.. any suggestions???
>.
>

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