This has to be a simple solution but i cant seem to find the answer. I know i have to assign the external hard drive a drive letter but i don't know how to do it without formatting the drive. I obviously don't want to format the drive because it has all of my backup information from my old hard drive.
The HDD is a Western Digital OEM 320GB IDE put into an external enclosure. The external enclosure worked perfect on old computer, but it was formatted on it. When i turn on the HDD my computer recognizes it as a USB mas storage device, it just doesn't assign it a drive letter.
When I run Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools it wants to set up the drive and make it additional storage, but it also must partition and format the drive before it can do so...
For some reason i assumed this would be easy, i almost feel like im taking crazy pills. When i go into Windows Disk Management all i can do is partition and format the drive, maybe im missing something
Thanks,
The HDD is a Western Digital OEM 320GB IDE put into an external enclosure. The external enclosure worked perfect on old computer, but it was formatted on it. When i turn on the HDD my computer recognizes it as a USB mas storage device, it just doesn't assign it a drive letter.
When I run Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Tools it wants to set up the drive and make it additional storage, but it also must partition and format the drive before it can do so...
For some reason i assumed this would be easy, i almost feel like im taking crazy pills. When i go into Windows Disk Management all i can do is partition and format the drive, maybe im missing something
Thanks,