External Harddrive strange

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When reinstalling Windows I wad brought to a DOS looking s teen asking where I wanted to install Windows. One was he C drive and the other was partitioned D drive. I chose to detect he partitioned D Drive thinking at was a partition I created before. But it may have been my external hard drive. If it was the the external hard drive would not I get a warning message that he files were going to be deleted.

Anyway the computer does find the external drive because this is listed in the SYSTEM window. I do not have a drive letter for it under MY COMPUTER.

I am using Windows XP. This happens on both of my computers. Is here a way to fix this. The first time the hard drive was seen under MY COMPUTER. The only way to read the files from it was to right lick on it and choose explore.
 
I really don't understand your post. :| You lost me at "I chose to detect he partitioned D Drive".

Did you install Windows XP onto the D drive?

IDK if you know this, but if you go to Disk Management in Windows, you might find either an answer or the tools to find one. You can get there by:

Start Menu > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

It's possible you erased your external HDD, but never created a primary partition on it, thus not being formatted, or giving it a drive letter within Windows; if this is the case, then the above Disk Management idea will allow you to remedy the problem, but unfortunately, if this is the case, you'll have lost your data, and you'll want to consider data recovery methods before doing anything.
 
I did find some possible answers to get the external drive working again. Partition recovery might work.

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Der-PC-Mann said:
I really don't understand your post. :| You lost me at "I chose to detect he partitioned D Drive".

Did you install Windows XP onto the D drive?

IDK if you know this, but if you go to Disk Management in Windows, you might find either an answer or the tools to find one. You can get there by:

Start Menu > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

It's possible you erased your external HDD, but never created a primary partition on it, thus not being formatted, or giving it a drive letter within Windows; if this is the case, then the above Disk Management idea will allow you to remedy the problem, but unfortunately, if this is the case, you'll have lost your data, and you'll want to consider data recovery methods before doing anything.

The computer knows the hard drive is there but does not assign it a drive letter. The computer had C drive listed as partitioned for Windows then there was the partitioned D. I do not remember partitioning the external hard drive because I know that will erase everything on the drive.
 
Im Confused to? So when installing XP you installed it to your external Drive?

But you think it isnt working properly because it '' Doesn't '' have a Drive Letter?

If your booting from it then it is clearly working, just re install the OS on C:// Drive, transferring files over later, and then finally formatting the external to erase the Old XP.

Dont think i understand your problem, so use EASEUS and post a PrtScn.
 
Jake- said:
Im Confused to? So when installing XP you installed it to your external Drive?

But you think it isnt working properly because it '' Doesn't '' have a Drive Letter?

If your booting from it then it is clearly working, just re install the OS on C:// Drive, transferring files over later, and then finally formatting the external to erase the Old XP.

Dont think i understand your problem, so use EASEUS and post a PrtScn.

No when I was first install g Windows I was brought to a screen to where I wanted to install. I chose partitioned D. Which after I chose that I changed my mind but erased the partitioned D. But, I noticed I decided to install Windows Professional on the dame computer 2 days ago and that D partition was still there without the external hard drive bring connected.
 
Whoa man. You are going to struggle to find help with that English. You may want to try to find a forum in your natural language because it's nearly impossible to understand what you're saying.
 
Whoa man. You are going to struggle to find help with that English. You may want to try to find a forum in your natural language because it's nearly impossible to understand what you're saying.

Perhaps it would be better if the OP posted his question in his native language. At least then we could copy/paste it into Google Translator and may have better luck understanding the question.
 
cboucher said:
Perhaps it would be better if the OP posted his question in his native language. At least then we could copy/paste it into Google Translator and may have better luck understanding the question.

I am writing this in English. By the the "his" is wrong just to correct "her" is proper here.
 
Honestly, I respect and applaud your use of English; I know how hard it is to use a second language in this much detail.

Unfortunately, I'm totally confused. Sorry I can't help. :(
 
Der-PC-Mann said:
Honestly, I respect and applaud your use of English; I know how hard it is to use a second language in this much detail.

Unfortunately, I'm totally confused. Sorry I can't help. :(

Thank you. I did find an application that did locate the files but in order to save the files that is where I would need to pay 60.00

I want a free application that both finds and saves the files with no cost.
 
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