Drive Letter not being Assigned
Hey I ran into this problem when I was doing some work for a guy and wasn't around for the resolution so I do not know what really happened. He had some harddrives that we pulled out of his previous machine and placed into a new rig. Once the new OS was installed and everything was ready for a migration whenever the old HDDs were connected in any manner they would not show up in Explorer and they were never assigned a drive letter. They usually were only called Data Volume or the drive title was blank. Also depending on how they were installed they would show the data or non at all also the disk health was always good. Later on he told me that he had Norton Go Back installed on the boot disk, second drive was a data dump, and after uninstalling it the drive could be seen and partially worked it just needed to the partition table rebuilt because of the software however the second drive did not have any software of that sort installed and always gave the same issues even after MBR prepare and partition rebuild. So I was wondering if there was something I was missing, I didn't see the end cause the guy was creepy and things so I distanced my way out of that situation, personal after work IT. I just wanted to reinstall GoBack and rip the data that way but he wouldn't let me, should of just done it and said I found another way. Just wondering if I was missing something there or it should of worked....so I am asking for a solution for future refernce TK in advance.
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Did you go into Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management? You should have been able to assign drive letters in there. Sometimes drives will not register correctly in Windows Explorer/My Computer if they are not first assigned in Disk Management.
Did you try different jumper positions on the hard drives? You could also try the disk in an external enclosure and see what Windows will show.