Re: second hard drive not assigned
- From: "cfcchris" <cfcchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:27:04 -0800
an excellent question george, i will check this when i get home tonight and
let you know. just to clarify what should the 2 drives report as in the
status line? i assume 1 should be system and the other active. would that be
correct? if it is not can you tell me what i am looking for and how to
correct it if it reports differently so i have something to work with when i
get to it tonight
thanks
"george" wrote:
> inline
>
>
> "xfile" <cou-cou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OD9qjGeNFHA.3356@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > For your reference,
> >
> > Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Disk Management
> >
> > Select the second HD, right click and select Change Drive Letter and
> > Paths.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> it won't since OP already stated that:
> "...to assign a letter it has the options greyed out and offers only format
> and help."
>
> Could both drives (and I'm going to assume here, there's only one partition
> on each drive) by any change have been created with the Active partition
> flag set?
> In that case it would be correct, because as Highlander says: "There can be
> only one!"
> The first partition encountered would be assigned C: and the second,
> contesting to have C: as well, would not get any.
>
> What does the Status column in Disk Manager report for both disks?
>
> george
>
>
> >
> > "cfcchris" <cfcchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:66FE50DB-B9AE-4170-93EC-65C65725BF9A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>I recently changed my primary drive fro a new one, backed up all my
> >>important
> >> data to my second drive and installed xp home . The system works fine
> >> except
> >> that my second drive has no drive letter assigned to it. I have checked
> >> its
> >> connection and jumper settings, checked the bios reporting and look in
> >> disk
> >> management where it shows up as online but with no drive letter. when i
> >> try
> >> to assign a letter it has the options greyed out and offers only format
> >> and
> >> help.
> >>
> >> To check the drive was ok i swapped back to my old primary drive and all
> >> was
> >> fine with the second drive which i then checked for integrity, all was
> >> well.
> >> so i swapped back to the new drive and it reported the second drive as
> >> online
> >> but with no drive letter again. any help would be greatly appreciated
> >
> >
>
>
>
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