Explorer won't recognize E: drive

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XP formatted in NTFS can see a FAT32 drive. First go to Control
Panel>AdminTools>Computer Manage>Disk Manage. See if you can assign a drive
letter to the drive that is skipped if it shows up there.
If not I would install the drive by itself temporarily as Master on the
Secondary IDE channel and see if Explorer sees it.

"Gene L." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2ebaf01c46d8f$68c66580$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> My computer has 3 hard drives. CMOS reconizes all three.
> device manager recognizes all 3 but explorer will only
> recognize c: which is the main drive f: which is data
> storage. It skips e: which came from a crashed computer,
> but I need the data from that drive. C: & F: are NTFS
> format and E: is FAT32, this machine is XP PRO. Is that
> rhe reason it won't recognize it? If so what can I do
> about it?
>
> Gene