Re: 2nd drive not showing in My Computer.....

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Thanks but we have tried this and it doesn't want to play ball. I offered this solution originally but it doesn't seem to work for him. As stated, the drive shows up as active and healthy, used and free space is showing correctly, just no drive letter assigned.

Barry

it will be recognized as a simple drive under disk management.
right click on my computer icon, then manage, disk management.


"Barry Gibson" <catweazle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all

I am trying to help a friend of mine at work who has just replaced his
main hard drive and re-installed XP on that drive. His problem is that
now XP does not show his second drive through My Computer.

If he goes through Disk Management, XP sees the drive and reports the
size, free space etc, correctly but does not show a drive letter. I
have had this before when swapping drives and have always managed to
assign a drive letter to it and all has worked OK afterwards.

The only difference from what he has told me is that the option on the
R/click menu to change drive letter or path is greyed out and so is
unable to select this option to assign a drive letter.

The only thing he has done is to change the main the hard drive, the
second has remained in situ . As usual he has made no back-up and
needs to access the data on the second drive.

Can anyone offer any assistance as to where the problem may lie?

Thanks in advance.....

Barry

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