I have a Sony desktop, Pentium D, with WindowsXP mce. The hard drives are both SATA. I added a new maxtor hd as drive d last month. I put all my programs on the C drive and all my data and other stuff on my D drive. I did a complete system restore the end of December and everything was ok. Unfortunatly, I had to do another complete system restore yesterday. I backed up all my info onto drive D. Now, the computer doesn't recognize drive D. The maxtor shows up in the BIOS and in the device manager. Also, it shows up in the Disk Management, but doesn't have a drive letter assigned to it. If I right click on it, the only options I get are "delete partition". I don't want to format this disk since all my info is on it. I know the info is still there because the free space is much smaller than the capacity. Don't beat me up for not backing it up on a cd or dvd. I've already slapped myself silly. Anyway, is there anyway for me to assign this drive a letter or somehow access the second hd? Thanks for your help.
jeff
jeff