Vista - Cannot change drive letter via Disk management

All - XP PC died, taken the hard drive and placed into external USB cage and plugged into Vista laptop. I cannot see it in My computer but under disk management I can see it as a disk and a healthy operating partition, but it has no drive letter and I am unable to change the drive letter as the only option I have is the delete command. My presumption is that as this was the master boot record on my XP PC, this is the reason why I cannot change the drive letter? But I am unsure.

I have 90% of the data backed up on a seperate USB drive, but it's the 10% especially some recent video and photos that I want off the drive.

Krakapo

What was the drive formated in xp (NTFS?) If the other 10% of the data is critical, and you have the room make a clone of the drive. If not ther are 3rd party apps that can label it assign a letter, move it, etc . Parigon disk suite 2009 has a free trial, partition magic is also free. Parigon is better at MBR problems. If there truely is an mbr problem there are 3rd party apps that specialize in fixing it

Hope this helps

Ken

Its is most likely an ownership issue as the XP drive is NTFS.

This solution is for XP, but the steps are the same in Vista.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

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David Vair
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