Hello,

I have a Dell 8600 Inspiron running WinXP/SP3. The laptop has a 60Gb
internal drive, a DVD drive, and a USB external drive. The 2 disk drives are
both single partition. I was checking the drives in disk management and
noticed that the 2 disk drives didn't show their drive letters. The DVD
drive letter was listed in the disk management window. According to the disk
management window, the 2 disk drives are unmounted. But this can't be true
because the laptop boots normally and I can see all of the drive letters
when I open My Computer or Explorer. Is there some way that I can restore
these drive letters in disk management?

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Thanks,
Tony
For replies, please correct my email address.

"Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have a Dell 8600 Inspiron running WinXP/SP3. The laptop has a 60Gb
> internal drive, a DVD drive, and a USB external drive. The 2 disk drives
> are both single partition. I was checking the drives in disk management
> and noticed that the 2 disk drives didn't show their drive letters. The
> DVD drive letter was listed in the disk management window. According to
> the disk management window, the 2 disk drives are unmounted. But this
> can't be true because the laptop boots normally and I can see all of the
> drive letters when I open My Computer or Explorer. Is there some way that
> I can restore these drive letters in disk management?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Tony
> For replies, please correct my email address.

You can right-click them to assign drive letters.

The drive letters that show up in My Computer are not listed in the
available drive letter list. I think that the disk management utility knows
that the 2 drive letters in question have already been assigned. I could
re-assign different drive letters but I am afraid that I may mess up the
boot up sequence by doing this. I'm guessing that there is may be a bug in
the disk management utility, possibly caused by SP3. As far as I can tell,
it doesn't seem to be causing a problem right now, so I will just leave it
as is.

Thanks again.


>
> You can right-click them to assign drive letters.
>

"Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message
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> The drive letters that show up in My Computer are not listed in the
> available drive letter list. I think that the disk management utility
> knows that the 2 drive letters in question have already been assigned. I
> could re-assign different drive letters but I am afraid that I may mess up
> the boot up sequence by doing this. I'm guessing that there is may be a
> bug in the disk management utility, possibly caused by SP3. As far as I
> can tell, it doesn't seem to be causing a problem right now, so I will
> just leave it as is.
>
> Thanks again.
>

Suspecting a bug in Disk Management is rather premature. It is far
more likely that the letters are already assigned, probably by a
background process such as a scheduled task.

Tony

TweakUi might be worth a try.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p.../powertoys.asp

In TweakUi select My Computer, Drives. Also the Dive Letter option.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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Tony P. wrote:
> The drive letters that show up in My Computer are not listed in the
> available drive letter list. I think that the disk management utility
> knows that the 2 drive letters in question have already been
> assigned. I could re-assign different drive letters but I am afraid
> that I may mess up the boot up sequence by doing this. I'm guessing
> that there is may be a bug in the disk management utility, possibly
> caused by SP3. As far as I can tell, it doesn't seem to be causing a
> problem right now, so I will just leave it as is.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>>
>> You can right-click them to assign drive letters.