Logical drives

Hi,

The drive should be formatted. I tried to condense my tale of woe, but the
master/slave relationship of the two were originally reversed. I had a
Windows malfunction on the current slave unit (but was the master unit
earlier), which I could not repair from the WinXP repair console. So, I took
the second drive and reformatted it and installed WinXP on it and hoped to
retrieve the data files from the original master unit (now the slave unit).
Some of Norton's utilities showed that the data files on the original master
were intact but I could not copy them.

I was puzzled that the volume name survived and the disk manager showed that
28% of the drive was still free, etc., so I hoped I would be able to copy the
My Documents folder and put this nightmare behind me.

Do you think all is lost and that is why it doesn't register?

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> The Phantom wrote:
>
> > I have two internal hard drives on my system. The mainboard BIOS and
> > the Device Manager within Control Panel recognize both drives as
> > operational, but My Computer and Windows Explorer do not recognize
> > them.
> >
> > I went into Disk Manager (in Administrative Tools) and found both
> > disks listed. However, the non recognized one only shows the volume
> > name I gave it and does not show a drive letter. (It does show that
> > it is a healthy, active drive and recognizes its size and free
> > space.) When I right click on this drive, the option to assign or
> > change a letter is grayed out.
> >
> > Is there something I'm missing in trying to get a drive letter
> > assigned to this drive?
>
>
>
> Have you formatted it?
>
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