Cal Bear '66

Right click Computer>Manage, highlight Disk Management
What does the graphical window show for your drive?
Can you assign it a drive letter?
You can also right click on the drive and it should have a Security tab.


"Taps" <Taps@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I checked on the drive and there is no Securities tab on the secondary Sata
> Drive. Any ideas. I really dont want to format this drive. Another issue is
> that Vista is only seeing 128Gig instead of 300G, and on the file system it
> says RAW yet it was NTFS before on the XP machine
>
> "Cal Bear '66" wrote:
>
>> Have you tried taking ownership/giving yourself full permissions for the
>> drive
>> on the Securities tab of the drive's properties?
>>
>>
>> "Taps" <Taps@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:5FA146EB-33CA-4D83-AF72-FF40C771549B@microsoft.com...
>> > Correction i have a SATA Drive
>> >
>> > "Taps" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello
>> >>
>> >> I have a new Dell Machine with Vista Business and had an old machine with
>> >> a
>> >> additional 300 Gig ST330063 SCSCI Drive. I was basically using the drive
>> >> for storage of photos and some music. However, when i added it to my
>> >> machine
>> >> it recognizes it but i cannot access my files. Here are the list of
>> >> problems
>> >> that i am having.
>> >> 1) Says i have to format it to access it
>> >> 2)Only recognizing 150 Gig instead of 300 and yes i have checked for
>> >> updates
>> >> 3)Wont let me make the Partition active (although it does show its active
>> >> already)
>> >> Even after Changing Drive Paths it wont recognize it. I have had the info
>> >> on this drive for 5 years and have had no problems previously in XP pro
>> >> when
>> >> i was moving it from PC to PC
>> >>
>> >> Thanks You
>>
>>