Greetings...

After more searching, web crawling and some hair-pulling, we discovered that our IT Dept had things screwed down so tight on this specific drive on this specific server, the problem...

I'll have to ask the person who did the actual install whether he could see the drive when the software was loaded.

Also, I'll check out the Active status as well.

Thanks,...

Oops, forgot...

No, the D drive is not active in Disk Mgr. The C drive is the active drive.

The D drive is the data drive, the C drive holds all programs and system files. Accordingly, we write to it all the time.

The SQL2008 install is new. ...