Re: Hard drive not showing up

I did come across some articles suggesting the externals can sometimes insist
on the next physical drive letter whether it's been assigned to a partition
or not. Maybe I can look into that further. I went and bought another
external drive; unfortuanately, I forgot it had to be one that I could secure
with a locking cable so I have to get a different one

I appreciate your time.

Happy New Year!

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

Its hard to say...
I've worked with hard drives where they seem limited natively by the drive letter they can assign themselves

Have you tried connecting to another domain workstation, reading the data and then copying that to the server to a folder to be used for the restore?

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"rfIPS" <rfIPS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:0BE88981-99D2-45AD-B7A3-FDF4FDC01661@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
No, we don't.

"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:

> Do you have any network drives mapped on the server?
>
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> "rfIPS" <rfIPS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DF3A887C-52A7-46AB-A0B9-C7F73CE703E9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It's been a few days since I connected it to my desktop, but I think it was
> E:. I have C:, D:, G: & Q: (last 2 are network drives) on my system.
>
> "Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
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> > what drive letter does it show up as when you connect to your xp?
> >
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> > "rfIPS" <rfIPS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3D7633C7-6253-4324-9E79-5F2B9A42655E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > So sorry, I worked over the holiday's and it's been a long week! I did mean
> > that the server itself is raid1 with partitions. I just remoted in and cannot
> > see it in disk managment. FYI, the disk is readable from my xp desktop.
> >
> > "Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" wrote:
> >
> > > You don't mean that the External drive is raid 1 with 4 partitions do you?
> > >
> > > On the server, Go to disk management and see if you see the external drive out there
> > >
> > > If you do, see if you can right click and change the drive letter to G or H
> > > You'll then have to re-run the Backup wizard to point to whatever drive letter you assigned to it
> > >
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> > > "rfIPS" <rfIPS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:581EC84D-CDCD-427D-AE18-F8CBE80D1EA6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > We had a server crash and had to reinstall everything from the ground up.
> > > When I hooked up the external drive that was used for backups, device manager
> > > saw it but I couldn't browse it and it didn't show up in disk management. If
> > > applicable: It's 150 GB hard drive in a RAID 1 configuration; set up with 4
> > > partitions C: - F:. Also, I don't normally manage this server; I'm helping a
> > > co-worker who is currently out of the country. It's located in a COLO
> > > facility and I can remote in. I do have physical access when an appt. is
> > > arranged; I'm heading over there later today. Any help before I head over
> > > there is greatly appreciated
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