| Subject: Disk management refuses to assign a disk letter. Help! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/13/2008 7:09:18 AM |
| From: "Andy G" [Email Address Protection] |
I have a WD MyBook external hard drive, capacity 250GB. It is a USB device and needs no drivers, or at least it didn't when connected to my previous HP notebook running XP. When I connect it to my latest HP notebook (Compaq 6720s), it shows up in Device Manager, which lists it as working properly. However, there is no sign of it in Explorer or in Computer. When I look in Admin Tools under Disk Management, it is shown as Disk 1, but with no drive letter. If I select it and right click and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths", I get an error message saying: "The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view is not up to date. Refresh the view using the Refresh Task. If the problem persists close the Disk Management console, then restart Disk Management, or restart the computer." As you will guess, neither refreshing nor restarting makes any difference. What on earth do I do to perform this apparently simple operation? Any help appreciated. Andy |
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| Subject: Re: Disk management refuses to assign a disk letter. Help! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/14/2008 12:46:42 PM |
| From: JimB [Email Address Protection] |
I'm not sure here, but is there stuff on it ? Otherwise I would format it in NTFS (eventually partition it) from within the OS on which it is connected; than I guarantee you it will be able to assign drive letters. -- JimB Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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| Subject: Re: Disk management refuses to assign a disk letter. Help! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/14/2008 11:57:54 PM |
| From: "Roberto le Cornielle" [Email Address Protection] |
"Andy G" <georgi66@otenet.gr> wrote in message news:e2riv4U$IHA.4156@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I have a WD MyBook external hard drive, capacity 250GB. It is a USB device >and needs no drivers, or at least it didn't when connected to my previous >HP notebook running XP. > > When I connect it to my latest HP notebook (Compaq 6720s), it shows up in > Device Manager, which lists it as working properly. However, there is no > sign of it in Explorer or in Computer. When I look in Admin Tools under > Disk Management, it is shown as Disk 1, but with no drive letter. If I > select it and right click and choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths", I > get an error message saying: > > "The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view > is not up to date. Refresh the view using the Refresh Task. If the > problem persists close the Disk Management console, then restart Disk > Management, or restart the computer." > > As you will guess, neither refreshing nor restarting makes any difference. > What on earth do I do to perform this apparently simple operation? > > Any help appreciated. > > Andy Have you initialized and formatted the external HDD ?. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEyvdhZemSg rgds Roberto |
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| Subject: Re: Disk management refuses to assign a disk letter. Help! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/15/2008 4:42:35 AM |
| From: "Andy G" [Email Address Protection] |
Well, there is stuff on it, which is my only backups! I'm loath to format the drive as I cannot backup to DVD first, as that has stopped working too. So if the format fails, I'd be in a difficult place. From what I can glean from various utilities, Vista, (and Diskpart), see no volume on the drive, although they both see a partition... My old XP machine mounts the drive straight away, and I can see and use all files. "JimB" <JimB.3e5go6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message news:JimB.3e5go6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com... > > I'm not sure here, but is there stuff on it ? Otherwise I would format > it in NTFS (eventually partition it) from within the OS on which it is > connected; than I guarantee you it will be able to assign drive letters. > > > -- > JimB > Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com > |
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| Subject: Re: Disk management refuses to assign a disk letter. Help! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/15/2008 8:12:22 AM |
| From: "Curious" [Email Address Protection]> |
What happens when you try and assign a Drive letter to the Partition? My world book backup uses the drive letter I assign to the partition. "Andy G" <georgi66@otenet.gr> wrote in message news:eSqDJws$IHA.4740@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Well, there is stuff on it, which is my only backups! I'm loath to format > the drive as I cannot backup to DVD first, as that has stopped working > too. So if the format fails, I'd be in a difficult place. > > From what I can glean from various utilities, Vista, (and Diskpart), see > no volume on the drive, although they both see a partition... > > My old XP machine mounts the drive straight away, and I can see and use > all files. > > > "JimB" <JimB.3e5go6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message > news:JimB.3e5go6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com... >> >> I'm not sure here, but is there stuff on it ? Otherwise I would format >> it in NTFS (eventually partition it) from within the OS on which it is >> connected; than I guarantee you it will be able to assign drive letters. >> >> >> -- >> JimB >> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com >> > |
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| Subject: Re: Disk management refuses to assign a disk letter. Help! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/15/2008 8:04:29 AM |
| From: JimB [Email Address Protection] |
I suggest you BU the drive to another one using your XP. Afterwards format it on your Vista using Diskpart. I must honestly say that I had once to buy another HD just to be able to return a HD to the shop I bought it from. It was acting strange, and I got another one. Now I always use a second HD to BU the first I use as a BU. So I always have 2 BU's. -- JimB Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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| Subject: Re: Disk management refuses to assign a disk letter. Help! |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.installation_setup |
| Date: 8/15/2008 9:44:14 AM |
| From: "Andy G" [Email Address Protection] |
What would be the way to do that? I don't seem to be able to do anything via "Disk Management, (see my very first post), and as far as I can see you cannot assign a drive letter to a partition using "Diskpart", only to a volume, which does not seem to exist. Is there something else I can try? "Curious >" <<spammenot@nomail.com> wrote in message news:078594D1-EF1E-48CD-9B0B-B6C453B00581@microsoft.com... > What happens when you try and assign a Drive letter to the Partition? > My world book backup uses the drive letter I assign to the partition. > "Andy G" <georgi66@otenet.gr> wrote in message > news:eSqDJws$IHA.4740@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Well, there is stuff on it, which is my only backups! I'm loath to >> format the drive as I cannot backup to DVD first, as that has stopped >> working too. So if the format fails, I'd be in a difficult place. >> >> From what I can glean from various utilities, Vista, (and Diskpart), see >> no volume on the drive, although they both see a partition... >> >> My old XP machine mounts the drive straight away, and I can see and use >> all files. >> >> >> "JimB" <JimB.3e5go6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message >> news:JimB.3e5go6@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com... >>> >>> I'm not sure here, but is there stuff on it ? Otherwise I would format >>> it in NTFS (eventually partition it) from within the OS on which it is >>> connected; than I guarantee you it will be able to assign drive letters. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> JimB >>> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com >>> >> > |
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