Had to reinstall windows xp, formated main drive and installed windows back on it but left my second hard drive alone. Windows reconizes it, it shows up when in bios and in disk management , even with the unique name I gave it. Only problem is that I cant assign a letter to it so I can use it. Only option that I can pick is delete partition.

Is there a way to get keep the data even when deleting the partition or will I have to get rid of the data?

Thanks in advance

And btw when I right click on the box to the left the only options I get are help and properties.

ok welcome to the forum

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but when your in disk management, are you under an admin account with full access?

99% when a drive is first partitioned especially when formatted using dish managment, it asks you what drive letter you would like to use. if when that happened you selected a drive letter tha is in use. it more than likely wont default to another drive.

or you could be have that drive in fat32 but i think it still shows up ??

ill keep trying to help. but dont delete partition yet..

You do not need to delete the partition. You WILL lose all of the data if you do. Partition Magic lets you assign drive letters to your liking and will recognize empty, blank, and unformatted partitions. You can get the demo off their website, and I'm pretty sure it will let you change the letter in demo mode.