Peter
December 6th 03, 09:26 PM
Hi,
Go to disk management, right click on the slave drive and
select initialize drive.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>I have just upgraded to new hardware (processor,
>Motherboard, HD) and I did a fresh install of XP Pro on
my
>new HD. I placed my old hard drive with XP Pro
installed
>in my new machine as the slave drive (both set as cable
>select on the main ide port). The bios sees both drives
>corrrectly. Windows will boot fine from the new drive,
>but the old drive does not show up in "my computer". It
>shows up in disk administration, but has no drive
letter.
>Status is healthy and the size is correct. It will not
>let me assign a drive letter. All I want to do is
>transfer some data to my new drive so I can format the
old
>one. Any help is appreciated.
>.
>
Go to disk management, right click on the slave drive and
select initialize drive.
Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>I have just upgraded to new hardware (processor,
>Motherboard, HD) and I did a fresh install of XP Pro on
my
>new HD. I placed my old hard drive with XP Pro
installed
>in my new machine as the slave drive (both set as cable
>select on the main ide port). The bios sees both drives
>corrrectly. Windows will boot fine from the new drive,
>but the old drive does not show up in "my computer". It
>shows up in disk administration, but has no drive
letter.
>Status is healthy and the size is correct. It will not
>let me assign a drive letter. All I want to do is
>transfer some data to my new drive so I can format the
old
>one. Any help is appreciated.
>.
>