under disk management Healthy (Unknown Partition) and no drive letter assigned

[Srini_17]

Hi all,
I have a drive partioned and one of the partition shows as Healthy (Unknown Partition) and no drive letter assigned under disk management. How do i recover the data. this is the secondary drive on the system (It is in slave mode)

Thanks...Srini

[Jon Finley]

By default, 2003 server will NOT assign a drive letter to a new drive.

Right click on the drive, and assign it a drive letter.

Jon

[Jon Finley]

I'm looking at the secondary drive I placed in my 2003 server. I believe that I had to mark the drive active, then assign it a drive letter.

Jon

[Thomas Bianco]

This is what is referred to as "unmouted" in the Unix world. Glad to see Microsoft is becoming more standard with 2003. You have no idea how difficult it is to consolidate servers on a san when every server tries to grab every disk. Messy.

Regardless, you can mount the disk as suggested previously by right clicking the partition in disk management and choosing "change drive letter/path"

Mark active, btw, is a ruminate from the dos days when you would choose which partition of a hard disk would be the boot partition by marking it as the Active partition. You should not worry about this on a secondary disk.

[Jon Finley]

I thought that too, but I believe that I had to mark it active, in order to assign a drive letter.

Jon