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One Drive on my USB Disk in Missing in "My Computer"


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12-May-2008, 05:52 AM #1
One Drive on my USB Disk in Missing in "My Computer"
I have a 500 GB USB disk partitioned into 3 drives. They are labelled F:, G: and H:.

Attached is a picture of the Disk Management window (USB Drives FGH.jpg).

The first partition should be "Multimedia, Downloads (G: )" but now it has no drive letter displayed. When I right click on that partition, Disk Management displays merely "Help", there are no other options like "Change Drive Letter and Paths" or "Properties".

I have an identical drive which I use as a backup of the first one and is not normally connected to the system. When I connect it and power it up, the Disk Management window is as shown in the second attachment, "USB Drives FGHIJK.jpg".

It looks like the drive that should be drive J:, appears as drive "Copy of G: (G: )". Normally, this one is labelled "Copy of G: (J: )".

I note that the drive labelled "Multimedia, Downloads" is indicated as "EISA Configuration". I don't know what this means, but I don't think it should be there.

So does anyone know if I can do something to get this partition and drive accessible to Windows.

At the moment, that particular drive is missing from "My Computer".
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13-May-2008, 07:41 AM #2
Here are the pictures I attached above but laid out one on top of the other:




I hope this makes it easier for people to compare the two situations.

Last edited by Somnamna : 13-May-2008 08:38 AM. Reason: Clarification.
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