Re: No Drive Letter

From: Kelly (kelly_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:49:29 -0500

Hi Steve,

If you have TweakUI installed, check under My Computer/Drives and ensure
that there is a check in the box for that drive. 

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"Steve" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:2329501c45e5c$c81f4070$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I reloaded WinXP Pro on my system a few days ago.  I have
> a second hard drive setup as the master on a raid card
> (used for ATA not raid) that I cannot access.  The drive
> shows up during the boot process and in disk management,
> but will not show up on My Computer or Windows Explorer.
> I've also noticed in disk management, there is no drive
> letter assigned and the option to assign a drive letter
> is greyed out when I right click on the drive space.
> I've reloaded this same machine (no hardware changes) in
> the past using the same software and never had a problem
> like this until now.  Anyone had this problem or know how
> I can resolve the issue.  By the way, I put the second
> drive into another machine and it is accessible there.
> Also I have another device set as slave on the raid card
> that functions properly - so I know it's not a hardware
> issue (or at least reasonable sure).

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