Re: Logical drives

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The Phantom wrote:

I have two internal hard drives on my system. The mainboard BIOS and
the Device Manager within Control Panel recognize both drives as
operational, but My Computer and Windows Explorer do not recognize
them.

I went into Disk Manager (in Administrative Tools) and found both
disks listed. However, the non recognized one only shows the volume
name I gave it and does not show a drive letter. (It does show that
it is a healthy, active drive and recognizes its size and free
space.) When I right click on this drive, the option to assign or
change a letter is grayed out.

Is there something I'm missing in trying to get a drive letter
assigned to this drive?



Have you formatted it?

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Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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