Re: HDD Trouble, drive letter not showing...

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From: Don (don_at_nohope.com)
Date: 03/20/04 

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:15:00 -0000

If you think Tweak XP is the cause by leaving behind a registry key to hide
the drives, then make a manual restore point, reinstall tweakxp, unhide any
drives, if that cures it, then roll to the manual restore point. If not post
back. I am sure that one of the Many registry experts will have a fix. 

-- 
"TouchNova" <anyone@anywhere.net> wrote in message
news:_aV6c.46656$_w.748368@attbi_s53...
> I just purchased a 120GB DiamondMax Plus Maxtor HDD.  It's set to slave
and
> connected to the middle jumper on the same IDE cable as my master HDD.  I
> Auto Detected the new HDD in the BIOS, which recognized it properly.  When
I
> restarted my machine and looked in My Computer, the HDD was NOT listed.
> When I run the Add New Hardware wizard it's already recognized and says
it's
> working properly.  Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere to access the
drive,
> but it's supposedly ready to use.  That's my main problem, and ultimately
> what I'm trying to answer...but it's only the first half of my concern.
>
> At one time I installed and used TweakXP.  One of the options I selected
> using the app was to hide drive letters not in use.  I'm pretty sure I
> selected several to hide.  Unfortunately, soon thereafter I was forced to
> use System Restore and brought my system back to a date just before the
> tweak program was installed...figuring it to be the source of the OS
> problems I was suddenly experiencing.  My comp has been running very
> smoothly in the months since...
>
> My concern is, after restoring to a point prior to the tweak program's
> install, did the registry setting that I manipulated to hide my unused
> drives linger and is now preventing me from seeing my newly installed HDD?
>
> Any help would be HUGE.
>
> Thanks,
> TouchNova
>
>

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