I'm having a weird issue with my Windows XP Home Edition system running SP3. I noticed I do not have the drive letters to any of my hard drives(both DVD drives show their drive letters no problem) in Disk Management that is located in Computer Management. Only the drive volume names are displayed.What is odd though is that they appear fine in My Computer and in Explorer. They even appear in Disk Defragmenter also in Computer Mangement.
I can change the drive letters in Disk Management with no problem and the drives keep the drive letter intact correctly as I can see that in My Computer and in Explorer as well as Disk Defrag. they just do not display in disk management.
I have ran Diskpart list volumes and yhe LTR column is blank for the most part except for volume 0 and volume 1 which are the DVD drives as drive letters I and J. I tried to the use the command Assign after selecting the volume, but it says invalid volume or mount point. Something to that effect. I then used MountVol to see list of drive letters and all the drive letters being used are indeed assigned.
I have done research for a quite a while now and it seems that the one advise people is giving is to add UpperFilters PartMgr in the registry. That does not work for me it only locks up my computer during bootup. I have to go back to a ghost image just to get it to boot back up again. My ghost image is a recent ghost image that still has the same driveletter problem.
I would appreciate if anybody could give me assistance on this problem thank you very much.