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How to assign a drive letter to an external usb 2.0 hard drive? [URGENT]
Here is my scenario:
I have an external hard drive that was working fine until recently. It is being detected via USB in Windows XP, but it doesn't have a drive letter in "My Computer". So I right clicked on My Computer and clicked on 'Manage'.
Then a 'Computer Management' box pops up. Within this box, I clicked on Disk Management, and saw that this drive was recognized but isn't assigned a drive letter. The drive is UNALLOCATED and NOT INITIATED. I tried to initialize it, but it was not initializing it. The hard drive seems to be spinning and the normal light of the hard drive is on. The hard drive connects to the PC via a USB wire and uses the power from the PC.
The data on this external hard drive is very important, so I do not want to do anything that will erase or format the external hard drive. Can you please show me how i can access my files on this external hard drive; as I need to back them up to another working drive.
The external hard drive is:
ACOMDATA Photon 2.5 40GB Portable USB 2.0 Hard Drive - Silver (PHD040U2E-54)
I have Windows XP SP3 (supports USB 2.0)
Windows XP allows me to release the drive and detects it when I connect the USB wire to the PC, but there is no drive letter. How do i backup the data?
Please reply as soon as possible, as this is very urgent.
Also, will the steps in this article work for me:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4474341_recover-data-from-external-hard.html
Thanks and please reply very soon,
- Mansoor
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