Device Manager can in no way assign drive letters. Control Panel >
Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management is used to manage
disks and drive letter assignment.
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"Spirit" <noone@notthere.net> wrote in message
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> Go into Device Manager and assign a drive letter to the drive.
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> "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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