[SOLVED] External hard drive registers as healthy with no drive letter

michaelh613 · 04-10-2008, 01:55 PM

I have a hard drive taken from a computer that crashed. I have installed it in an external hard drive enclosure from dynex. When I install it the hard drive shows up as healthy (NTFS partition) in both device manager and computer management. However it does not show up with a drive letter. I cannot assign it a drive letter in computer management or in map drive letter. I need to be able to access the data on this hard drive.

Thank you for any help

**Deleted090308** · 04-10-2008, 02:50 PM

Welcome to TSF.

Have a look at this: Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?

michaelh613 · 04-10-2008, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eneles

Welcome to TSF.

Have a look at this: Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?

Thanks. Tried it on your suggestion and my drive did not show up here but it still shows up under disk management. So I was not able to use the program.

**Deleted090308** · 04-10-2008, 03:31 PM

If disk management "sees" the drive - then TestDisk must do so too.

Please post a screenshot of disk management and screen B in TestDisk (where the drives are listed).

How to post a screenshot.

michaelh613 · 04-10-2008, 04:08 PM

Just an FYI I was unable to link the attachment using IE 7.0 but was able to in firefox.

Back to my issue the drive Disk 1 in the screenshot is the one I can't get to have a drive letter which is in the external hard driv

**Deleted090308** · 04-10-2008, 04:22 PM

Where did this HHD come from? How was it formatted?

The TestDisk screenshot shows your CD.

A. At the first window, select “No Log” and press the <Enter> key.
New screen - please post back with a screenshot.

michaelh613 · 04-10-2008, 04:51 PM

I chose no logging the first time. I only see the DVD player when I use this software. I've attached the first two screen in the screenshot now for you to see.

Its an NTFS drive. You can see the formatting in Disk Management.
It's a drive that was the primary drive in a computer whose processor crashed and I just want to get the data from it.

**Deleted090308** · 04-10-2008, 05:06 PM

That's weird - TestDisk doesn't see any of your HDDs.

See if you can mount the drive with FindAndMount.

michaelh613 · 04-14-2008, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eneles

That's weird - TestDisk doesn't see any of your HDDs.

See if you can mount the drive with FindAndMount.

Thanks that resolved it.

04-10-2008, 01:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
michaelh613 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 5 OS: windows xp sp1	[SOLVED] External hard drive registers as healthy with no drive letter I have a hard drive taken from a computer that crashed. I have installed it in an external hard drive enclosure from dynex. When I install it the hard drive shows up as healthy (NTFS partition) in both device manager and computer management. However it does not show up with a drive letter. I cannot assign it a drive letter in computer management or in map drive letter. I need to be able to access the data on this hard drive. Thank you for any help

04-10-2008, 02:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: External hard drive registers as healthy with no drive letter Welcome to TSF. Have a look at this: Have you "lost" a hard drive, partition or files in your computer?

04-10-2008, 03:31 PM	#4 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: External hard drive registers as healthy with no drive letter If disk management "sees" the drive - then TestDisk must do so too. Please post a screenshot of disk management and screen B in TestDisk (where the drives are listed). How to post a screenshot. Last edited by Deleted090308; 04-10-2008 at 03:34 PM.

04-10-2008, 04:22 PM	#6 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: External hard drive registers as healthy with no drive letter Where did this HHD come from? How was it formatted? The TestDisk screenshot shows your CD. A. At the first window, select “No Log” and press the <Enter> key. New screen - please post back with a screenshot.

04-10-2008, 05:06 PM	#8 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: External hard drive registers as healthy with no drive letter That's weird - TestDisk doesn't see any of your HDDs. See if you can mount the drive with FindAndMount.