RE: Slave Drive has no drive assignment after XP reinstall

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Hi Andrew,
Thanks for your suggestion, but repatitioning the drive isn't an option at
this time. My 'life' is on the slave drive, everythng of value from the
master before I formatted it.
If you have any other ideas I'd be most grateful.

cheers
Monika

"Andrew E." wrote:

> Make sure the jumper pins on the drive are properly set.In xp install xp cd,
> exit the info page,restart computer,boot to xp cd,recovery,press enter key
> for
> password,then type:DiskPart In DiskPart,delete the partition on the slave
> drive,
> then create one,then press Esc key,Then type:FORMAT D: /FS:ntfs D: being
> the new drive,once its thru,type:EXIT Let xp restart,remove xp cd.
>
> "Monika" wrote:
>
> > I had been forced to reformat my C drive and reinstall XP Pro. All updates
> > loaded.
> >
> > After the reinstall, my slave (D drive) wasn't assicned a drive letter. It's
> > visible and listed as 'Healthy (Active), (baxic, NTFS) it even gives me the
> > volume name. Prior to the reformat/reinstall it was working fine.
> >
> > When right clicking on the disc, I have only the option of converting it to
> > a 'dynamic disk'. I have physically unplugged the HD and rebooted, then
> > reinstalled it manually. have disabled and uninstalled it via windows .
> >
> > I'm at a total loss what to do now. Obviously before the reformat, I putr
> > anything of value (such as documents etc) onto D drive. I do not want to
> > reformat it,. :)
> >
> > Can anyone rescue me? please?
> > many thanks
> > Monika
.

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