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New and old drive recognition

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I have installed a new, larger internal hard drive.

This was successfullyput in as drive 1
I then cloned drive 0 across to drive 1
Needing this to be my main drive I then physically changed the connection cable so that the new drive became drive 0 and the old one now drive1

Both drives are in "cable select" pin positions as advised in Dell manual.

The new drive now drive0 letterC works fine.
I cannot get "My computer" to recognise drive 1 and it shows up in disk manager as working and healthy but without a letter.
I want to access this drive without formatting and losing the backup programs on it.
Is this possible or do I have to format it and clone again to regain the content or is there a way of getting the drive recognised in the system with a new letter.

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Have you tried using the Windows Disk Management option to assign a drive letter to the old drive?

You probably would have had fewer problems if you had left the old drive disconnected until after the clone was booted and found usable. After the first boot, then the old one could have been attached and windows would have assigned another drive letter. Windows was confused with two identical drives with the same drive letter.