Vista - Newly installed Vista does not recognize my 2nd hard drive.

A few days ago I installed Vista. All went fine am pleased with the new
system. I do have a problem though in that Vista does not recognize the drive
and assign a letter to the drive. This drive is the data drive from my old XP
install (I finally gave up on XP due to all of the problems it generated for
me.) It is formatted with NTFS file system. The device manager recognizes
that the drive is there and the driver is working properly. I have tried to
assign a drive letter but Disk management will not allow me to do anything to
the drive but create a partitionl. All of my data is on this disk. I don't
want to loose the data. I tried to check the drive with partition magic and
got an error 44 which tells me that the drive is formatted HPFS. It was
formatted with XP so it can't be HPFS. Any suggestions on how to talk to the
drive?

Right click on the drive's root directory and take ownership/permissions for
your account on the security tab of properties.


"Cajuis" <Cajuis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>A few days ago I installed Vista. All went fine am pleased with the new
> system. I do have a problem though in that Vista does not recognize the drive
> and assign a letter to the drive. This drive is the data drive from my old XP
> install (I finally gave up on XP due to all of the problems it generated for
> me.) It is formatted with NTFS file system. The device manager recognizes
> that the drive is there and the driver is working properly. I have tried to
> assign a drive letter but Disk management will not allow me to do anything to
> the drive but create a partitionl. All of my data is on this disk. I don't
> want to loose the data. I tried to check the drive with partition magic and
> got an error 44 which tells me that the drive is formatted HPFS. It was
> formatted with XP so it can't be HPFS. Any suggestions on how to talk to the
> drive?