Then there is no need to assign a drive letter yet. Go get CLONEZILLA and clone that drive. Done.
I'm trying to connect a WD 500GB hard drive to my laptop so i can create a disk image of the current hard drive and then switch them out. I'm running Windows Vista with all the updates on my laptop.
The external is a WD 500GB SATA hard drive and I have it in a mobile SATA HDD enclosure.
When I plugged it in for the first time, windows installed the drivers and everything looked fine, but it won't assign it a drive letter #. I can uninstall it as an external USB storage device. When I go to the system icon in the control panel it is displayed correctly as a HDD.
Does anyone know why windows won't assign a drive letter to it?
Thanks.

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