Richard You responded to a Post about hidden partition.

Why is partition hidden? How is it set to be be hidden?
Why is changing to logical drive only way to unhide?

have sam problem with unassigned drive letter and only option is to delete
parttiton!!

OP was

Subject: Slave Drive has no drive assignment after XP reinstall 7/24/2005
5:15 AM PST

By: Monika In: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

Also, if the secondary drive is partitioned/formatted as a primary partition
(and subsequently hidden) disk management will see the drive but the only
option you have available is to delete the partition.

You can use Partition Magic to change the drive into a logical partition and
unhide it, which will make it always visible to the operating system. BTW, I
do this on purpose to protect data that I don't want the O/S to ever touch.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User