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Is it a Network Drive or an External Drive?<br />
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In both cases it won't show ... Copy you db backup to C Drive and Restore.
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I just installed a second instance of SQL 2005 and am trying to restore a database, redirecting the data and log files to places other than the c:\ drive. The second instance only seems to be able to see the c drive though and when I manually type in the location I want to redirect the data and log files to I get an Operating System error #5. <br />
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Has anyone encountered something like this? If so, how did you enable the second sql instance to see other drives? The account that is running sql does have access to the other drives. 
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I just installed a second instance of SQL 2005 and am trying to restore a database, redirecting the data and log files to places other than the c:\ drive. The second instance only seems to be able to see the c drive though and when I manually type in the location I want to redirect the data and log files to I get an Operating System error #5. 

Has anyone encountered something like this? If so, how did you enable the second sql instance to see other drives? The account that is running sql does have access to the other drives. 

Is it a Network Drive or an External Drive?

In both cases it won&#39;t show ... Copy you db backup to C Drive and Restore.

Second SQL Instance can only see the c:\ drive

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.