I don't see a way to assign either the drive I'm having issues with, nor the
drive that came with the computer, a drive letter via the device manager.
"Spirit" wrote:
> Go into Device Manager and assign a drive letter to the drive.
>
> "QContinueum" <QContinueum@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> >I recently bought a new PC. Vista came preinstalled. I pulled my data HDD
> >out
> > of my old windows 2000 box. It's formatted as either ntfs or fat32, I
> > forget
> > which.
> >
> > Anyway, my BIOS sees the drive, as does Vista. Sort of. The drive and its
> > partition show up in Disk Management, but upon right clicking on the
> > partition am only given the 'Help' option. Nothing else shows up. Vista
> > also
> > seems to have not assigned a volume name or letter to the drive.
> >
> > Disk Management doesn't see a file system on the disk, even though the
> > 'Status' is listed as Healthy.
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts or need more information?
>
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