Re: Harddrive help needed

Bitstring <ZsxNi.355$ah6.210@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person Urban Legend <mee@xxxxxxxxxxx> said

"Mike Kenny" <mike_kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello

I have a 250gb harddrive that right now, isn't appearing in My Computer,
but I can see it via Device Manager or Disk Management.


What file system is on the boot disk ?

And what drive letter is assigned in disk mgmt (if any) .. does it even show any partitions on the disk? fwiw network drive letters sometimes seem to preempt 'real' drive letter (at least for USB connected drives). If there is a drive letter maybe it has been hidden (also possible - tweakuiXP will undo that, assuming we are talking about XP of course).

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