Re: Install doesn't assign drive letter to slave drive

From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 06/18/04 

Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:58:46 -0500

Try the following:

1. Right-click on My Computer and select Manage.
2. Click once on Disk Management to highlight it.
3. Then from the Computer Management toolbar,
      click on Action > Rescan Disks.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309000 

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"smcroy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
 news:1e08d01c45537$deb172f0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
|I have a computer I'm upgrading with a new motherboard and 
| 120G WD hard drive. The old system was running ME with a 
| 2+ yr old 40G WD hard drive as the master and only hard 
| drive. I want that 40G drive to become my slave drive on 
| the new system. I've installed it with the proper jumper 
| settings (master on 120G, slave on 40G) and both on the 
| same IDE channel. The bios recognizes the drive, and so 
| does Windows Disk Management in the new XP installation, 
| but it does not assign a drive letter to it. In Disk 
| Management, the disk shows as Healthy (Active) with a 
| FAT32 Basic Partition, but when I try to assign a letter 
| by right-clicking on the drive, every choice is gray'ed 
| out except "Delete Partition". Capacity shows 37.26 GB, 
| with 17.40 GB free. (As expected, the master C drive shows 
| NTFS, 111.78 GB capacity, Healthy (System)). I want the 
| 40G drive to be a slave drive so I can move files from my 
| old installation to the new one. I've looked through the 
| entire Knowledge Base of both Microsoft and Western 
| Digital, but found nothing applicable.  Western Digital 
| support calls this a Windows issue.  Any ideas?

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