Thanks for your response!!

I don't know if I'm confusing the issue or not?

have you ever heard of a previously good partition when restored from a
ghost image, comes back with no drive letter and unable to assing one?

I know there are partitions with status as Unknown. these are probalby the
eom and pm and Sys commander hidden partitions.

But this is a normal looking partition that just can't assign drive letter!!
only option is to delete.


"Richard Urban" wrote:

> You can hide a partition by use of a 3rd party program/utility, such as
> Partition Magic or a boot program such as System Commander.
>
> When hidden, the operating system, under normal use, will not see the
> partition or write to it. Therefore, YOU will not be able to use the
> partition when booted up into Windows.
>
> Many OEM's use this technique to hide a recovery partition from the end
> user, as I also do - after I repair a system. That way the "average" end
> user can not muck around where I don't want them to. When they bring me
> their computer *yet again* because they screwed it up, I can access this
> hidden partition with my tools and restore their system to what it was when
> I delivered it to them.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "Dixonian69" <Dixonian69@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E1AA466A-668F-45F9-8DEA-94CD0FE54EA0@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Urban
> > Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> >
>
>
>