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1158907 2010-12-05 04:43:00 Hi,

Im currently running win 7 home premium 64bit . Up until just yesterday I was able to add hard drives and the would show up as expected .

Today I plugged in my external hard drive to run a back up and it wouldnt show up under my computer .

It will show up under device manager and disk management but not my computer . Other internal HD's behave the same way .

Ive tried doing a system restore but the problem persists and Im scratching my head .

Any ideas???

Thanks
12steps (14778)
1158908 2010-12-05 05:18:00 Do they have formatted partitions under Disk Management? If they do try and assign them a drive letter. gcarmich (10068)
1158909 2010-12-05 08:47:00 lol - how could I have over looked that?

weird i have never had needed to do that before. Any idea as to the cause?
12steps (14778)
1158910 2010-12-05 09:15:00 Obviously the drives need to be formatted, but once done, Windows "Should" have automatically assigned the drives the next letter in the Alphabet. wainuitech (129)
1158911 2010-12-05 22:01:00 yes all drives were formatted and working fine until the other day. Now no external (or new internal) drives get a drive letter... :annoyed: 12steps (14778)
1158912 2010-12-05 22:22:00 The maximum number of drives you can have is 26. You don't have more than that do you? Snorkbox (15764)
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