If you are restoring an image to a drive, and it is the only partition on
that drive, you have to assign a drive letter to it. You are able to do this
with the restore options within True Image and Ghost, before the image is
restored.

Is that what you are asking about?

I do not know what happens within Windows if you fail to do this. I have
never done so.

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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:1684D71B-330F-4B60-B5D0-02B05C4C9E34@microsoft.com...
> 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
>> >
>>
>>
>>