Win7 does not show external DD..

Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the C:
partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out of
this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
Eric

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:

> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the C:
> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out of
> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
> Eric

You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.

click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
any windows Explorer window).

From the drop-down menu choose Manage.

In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage) and
wait a few seconds for it to start.

If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
Drive Letter and Paths.

Assign a drive letter.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Le 10/08/2010 19:40, Gene E. Bloch a écrit :
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>
>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the C:
>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out of
>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>> Eric
>
> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>
> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
> any windows Explorer window).
>
> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>
> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage) and
> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>
> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
> Drive Letter and Paths.
>
> Assign a drive letter.
>
Thank you very much, Gene, for your prompt response. Now it works fine.

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
news:14vsiufwn1lrx$.ckyzso6dowqp$... .
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>
>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the C:
>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out of
>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>> Eric
>
> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>
> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
> any windows Explorer window).
>
> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>
> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage) and
> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>
> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
> Drive Letter and Paths.
>
> Assign a drive letter.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Looks like you solved his problem, but I thought USB drives didn't require
you to open Disk Management to assign drive letters. I have three 1.5TB USB
drives that auto assign anytime I remove and re-install them.

--

"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:32:39 -0400, Michael wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
> news:14vsiufwn1lrx$.ckyzso6dowqp$... .
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>>
>>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the C:
>>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out of
>>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>>> Eric
>>
>> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>>
>> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
>> any windows Explorer window).
>>
>> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>>
>> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage) and
>> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>>
>> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
>> Drive Letter and Paths.
>>
>> Assign a drive letter.
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>
> Looks like you solved his problem, but I thought USB drives didn't require
> you to open Disk Management to assign drive letters. I have three 1.5TB USB
> drives that auto assign anytime I remove and re-install them.

You're wrong.

If the drive letters have ever been killed they stay dead.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:16:13 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:

> Le 10/08/2010 19:40, Gene E. Bloch a écrit :
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>>
>>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the C:
>>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out of
>>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>>> Eric
>>
>> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>>
>> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
>> any windows Explorer window).
>>
>> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>>
>> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage) and
>> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>>
>> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
>> Drive Letter and Paths.
>>
>> Assign a drive letter.
>>
> Thank you very much, Gene, for your prompt response. Now it works fine.

Glad to have helped.

The voice of experience: it's a pretty mysterious thing to track down the
first time it happens :-)

Come to think of it, it can be pretty confusing even the second or third
time it happens...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
news:6iq6afdxbaag$....
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:32:39 -0400, Michael wrote:
>
>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
>> news:14vsiufwn1lrx$.ckyzso6dowqp$... .
>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>>>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the
>>>> C:
>>>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>>>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>>>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out
>>>> of
>>>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>>>> Eric
>>>
>>> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>>>
>>> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
>>> any windows Explorer window).
>>>
>>> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>>>
>>> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage)
>>> and
>>> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>>>
>>> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
>>> Drive Letter and Paths.
>>>
>>> Assign a drive letter.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>
>> Looks like you solved his problem, but I thought USB drives didn't
>> require
>> you to open Disk Management to assign drive letters. I have three 1.5TB
>> USB
>> drives that auto assign anytime I remove and re-install them.
>
> You're wrong.
>
> If the drive letters have ever been killed they stay dead.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Killed? What do you mean?

--

"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:13:50 -0400, Michael wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
> news:6iq6afdxbaag$....
>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:32:39 -0400, Michael wrote:
>>
>>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
>>> news:14vsiufwn1lrx$.ckyzso6dowqp$... .
>>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>>>>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the
>>>>> C:
>>>>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>>>>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>>>>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out
>>>>> of
>>>>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>>>>
>>>> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
>>>> any windows Explorer window).
>>>>
>>>> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>>>>
>>>> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage)
>>>> and
>>>> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>>>>
>>>> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
>>>> Drive Letter and Paths.
>>>>
>>>> Assign a drive letter.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>>
>>> Looks like you solved his problem, but I thought USB drives didn't
>>> require
>>> you to open Disk Management to assign drive letters. I have three 1.5TB
>>> USB
>>> drives that auto assign anytime I remove and re-install them.
>>
>> You're wrong.
>>
>> If the drive letters have ever been killed they stay dead.
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>
> Killed? What do you mean?

What I said.

Follow the instructions I gave to Antoine Paoli, but instead of assigning a
letter to the drive, click on Remove and say Yes. Now the drive doesn't
have a letter, and it won't ever have a letter when you plug it in to the
same computer, until you follow my original instructions.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:19:05 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:13:50 -0400, Michael wrote:
>
>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
>> news:6iq6afdxbaag$....
>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:32:39 -0400, Michael wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
>>>> news:14vsiufwn1lrx$.ckyzso6dowqp$... .
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>>>>>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the
>>>>>> C:
>>>>>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>>>>>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>>>>>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>>>>>> Eric
>>>>>
>>>>> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>>>>>
>>>>> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer in
>>>>> any windows Explorer window).
>>>>>
>>>>> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage)
>>>>> and
>>>>> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>>>>>
>>>>> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
>>>>> Drive Letter and Paths.
>>>>>
>>>>> Assign a drive letter.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>>>
>>>> Looks like you solved his problem, but I thought USB drives didn't
>>>> require
>>>> you to open Disk Management to assign drive letters. I have three 1.5TB
>>>> USB
>>>> drives that auto assign anytime I remove and re-install them.
>>>
>>> You're wrong.
>>>
>>> If the drive letters have ever been killed they stay dead.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>
>> Killed? What do you mean?
>
> What I said.
>
> Follow the instructions I gave to Antoine Paoli, but instead of assigning a
> letter to the drive, click on Remove and say Yes. Now the drive doesn't
> have a letter, and it won't ever have a letter when you plug it in to the
> same computer, until you follow my original instructions.

BTW, do *not* do this to your boot drive or Windows drive :-)

I didn't mention it before because the last time I looked, I wasn't
presented with that option on C: (my system drive), but I just rechecked,
and this time I had the option (I must need new glasses).

Das ist nicht gut.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
news:dortvj912nyx.kn7ra3q90fdr$....
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:13:50 -0400, Michael wrote:
>
>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
>> news:6iq6afdxbaag$....
>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:32:39 -0400, Michael wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Gene E. Bloch" <not-> wrote in message
>>>> news:14vsiufwn1lrx$.ckyzso6dowqp$... .
>>>>> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:22:19 +0200, Antoine Paoli wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello! My Asus netbook running Win7 does not show the external hard
>>>>>> disks formated in NTFS on whom I wanted to create a disk image of the
>>>>>> C:
>>>>>> partition. Any backup or simply the copy of files is therefore
>>>>>> impossible. However, the disks are recognized when I activate their
>>>>>> ejection. Could anybody enlighten me on this behavior and help me out
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> this trouble? Thank you for your kind answers.
>>>>>> Eric
>>>>>
>>>>> You may have no drive letter assigned to the drives.
>>>>>
>>>>> click the Start orb and right click Computer (or right click Computer
>>>>> in
>>>>> any windows Explorer window).
>>>>>
>>>>> From the drop-down menu choose Manage.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the left pane of Manage, open Disk Management (it's under Storage)
>>>>> and
>>>>> wait a few seconds for it to start.
>>>>>
>>>>> If your drive is there without a letter, right click and choose Assign
>>>>> Drive Letter and Paths.
>>>>>
>>>>> Assign a drive letter.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>>>
>>>> Looks like you solved his problem, but I thought USB drives didn't
>>>> require
>>>> you to open Disk Management to assign drive letters. I have three
>>>> 1.5TB
>>>> USB
>>>> drives that auto assign anytime I remove and re-install them.
>>>
>>> You're wrong.
>>>
>>> If the drive letters have ever been killed they stay dead.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>>
>> Killed? What do you mean?
>
> What I said.
>
> Follow the instructions I gave to Antoine Paoli, but instead of assigning
> a
> letter to the drive, click on Remove and say Yes. Now the drive doesn't
> have a letter, and it won't ever have a letter when you plug it in to the
> same computer, until you follow my original instructions.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Then we'll agree to disagree. Out of the box my USB drives are assigned a
drive letter. Depending on which one I plug in first it will automatically
be assigned a letter. May not be the same due to order in which I plug them
in. What reason would I have to go into DM and remove a drive letter???

--

"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."