ddwebb

Hea, I was wondering if I could take the 320g drive that has failed in this
computer, put it in a external case as a USB external drive and connect it to
the computer. Wonder if it would recognize the drive as an external drive and
drive letter and then read what is on the drive?
Then the next question is:
If I did this, would I have the same problem I have now where if I need to
reinstall the O/S, it would not loose the drive as it would be a USB drive.
Correct in your thinking as well?

"ddwebb" wrote:

> It says it is a Dynamic drive and Healthy but no drive letter.
>
> I dont get the ability to assign a drive letter, not enabled. I an only see
> Properties and Help and Convert to Basic Disk.
>
> Would have made it nice to just assign a new drive letter.
>
> Get this, I have another PC with the same type of drive in in it and had to
> re-install XP on the PC. The 2nd drive was the Western Digital wd3200jb just
> like this one on my Vista machine. It also did not come up after reinstalling
> the O/S?
>
> So now 2 machines with identical type of drives and both would not show the
> drive after the O/S was installed. Both show the same issue, I can see in
> Disk Mgr but can not do anything with them except Convert to Basic.
>
> "mister.jones" wrote:
>
> > You say, the drive shows up in Disk Manager.
> >
> > On the left, you see probably:
> > Disk X
> > Dynamic
> > XXX GB
> > Online
> >
> > What do you see on the right? Which color is assigned to the volume? Which
> > filesystem is given? etc.
> > What comes up if you right-click here?
> > Have you tried "Change Drive Letter and Paths" to add a new drive letter?
> >