Drive Letters VISABLE in "My Computer, NOT VISABLE in Disk..

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Additional Info... When I right click a partition in Disk Management, "change
drive letters and paths..." is greyed out and is not an option EXCEPT for
Disk 0, partition Win_XP. When I click to change I then have to click "ADD"
and it gives me letters E and H thru Y.

Please Help if you know what's going on here.

Thanks, Rick

"MagicalOyster" wrote:

> I searched but could not find a post that helps...
>
> I cannot find out why the partition drive letters are not showing up in disk
> management but are showing in "My Computer". I can view directories and file
> in explorer but links and commands do not work because they can't find the
> paths.
>
> I have 3 physical HDs. They show up in "My Computer" as follows...
>
> 160 GB internal HD shows as:
> WIN XP (C 146 GB total partition size
> HP RECOVERY (G 5.26 GB total partition size
>
> 80 GB Internal HD shows as:
> Win XP BackUp (D 76.3 GB total partition size
>
> 120 GB External USB Maxtor HD shows as:
> DATA (F 114 GB total partition size
>
> My DVD-RW Drive is Letter Z:
>
> BUT... When I go to Windows Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc), I get the
> following.... (No Drive Letters like I did before)
>
> Disk 0 Basic 152.67 GB Online
> HP_RECOVERY 5.28 GB FAT 32 Healthy (Unknown
> Partition)
> WIN_XP 146.48 GB NTSF Healthy (Active)
> 926 MB
> Unallocated
>
> Disk 1 Basic 76.33 GB Online
> WIN_XP_BACKUP 76.33 GB NTSF Healthy (Unkown Partition)
>
> Disk 2 Basic 114.49 GB Online
> DATA 146.48 GB NTSF Healthy (Active)
>
> CD-ROM 0
> DVD (Z
> No Media
>
> HP_RECOVERY on Disk 0 and DATA on Disk 1 ARE HIDDEN PARTITIONS, that's why
> they say "unknown partition".