[ThomasThomas]

Disk manager is not part of Explorer it is part of system tools. It looks at physical drives and shows how they a partitioned including usb drives. It will see the drive space even if it dose not have a letter assigned.

[Varmint Al]

It could be that the old C: Drive is now called the D: drive and the logical partition that was called the D: drive has a new drive letter assigned to it. You can use C:\WINDOWS\system32\diskmgmt.msc to view all of the drives and actually assign new letters to them.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

[rabscuttle385]

Disk manager is not part of Explorer it is part of system tools. It looks at physical drives and shows how they a partitioned including usb drives. It will see the drive space even if it dose not have a letter assigned.

I know that. I have used the disk partition tools in NT family operating systems since version 3.5. The system's disk management tools will see the entire physical drive and all its constituent partitions, however if a FAT16/32 or NTFS partition is *not* assigned a drive letter (in a Unix or Unix-like system, the equivalent is that the partition is not mounted properly) then the partition will not be visible in Explorer (or to any other user shells).

Does this clear up things a bit?