IDE Drives

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Muzzy

Two problems:-

1) On one machine I have 2 x HDDs ( on the first IDE bus) & 2 x CD-ROMs. on
the second
XP sees them as
IDE 1 primary = C: & secondary = F:
[i.e HDDs]
IDE 2 primary = D: & secondary = E:.
[i.e.CDs]

I have to use an in-house [poorly written, in my view] C++ application which
expects certain things to be on C:\ etc. and certain others on D:\ etc.

How do I change these allocations?

2) On a similar machine, I've just replaced the second HDD i.e. *F:*
(brand new, out-of -the-box Seagate 80G)
The BIOS sees this new drive OK as does Control Panel\System\Device
Manager but Explorer does not.
Any ideas please?

TIA
Phil
 
In both cases right click on "my computer" go to "manage" and then "disk
management" you should be able to change the allocation of drive letters to
drives and also see the drive without a letter, there you can format and
allocate a drive letter. Just remember changing drive letters and CDRoms may
stop other shortcuts/programs working or if a program looks for a cdrom
drive letter then it may need to be re-installed.

Neil
 
With your brand new, out-of -the-box Seagate 80G you may have to use FDISK
and FORMAT.


neil said:
In both cases right click on "my computer" go to "manage" and then "disk
management" you should be able to change the allocation of drive letters to
drives and also see the drive without a letter, there you can format and
allocate a drive letter. Just remember changing drive letters and CDRoms may
stop other shortcuts/programs working or if a program looks for a cdrom
drive letter then it may need to be re-installed.

Neil
Muzzy said:
Two problems:-

1) On one machine I have 2 x HDDs ( on the first IDE bus) & 2 x
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CD-ROMs.
on
the second
XP sees them as
IDE 1 primary = C: & secondary = F:
[i.e HDDs]
IDE 2 primary = D: & secondary = E:.
[i.e.CDs]

I have to use an in-house [poorly written, in my view] C++ application which
expects certain things to be on C:\ etc. and certain others on D:\ etc.

How do I change these allocations?

2) On a similar machine, I've just replaced the second HDD i.e. *F:*
(brand new, out-of -the-box Seagate 80G)
The BIOS sees this new drive OK as does Control Panel\System\Device
Manager but Explorer does not.
Any ideas please?

TIA
Phil
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You need to partition that NEW HDD then format it. You should be able to do this from Disk
Management.
As to your other question I have no idea. Go to the person/company that wrote the program.


--
Shootist


| Two problems:-
|
| 1) On one machine I have 2 x HDDs ( on the first IDE bus) & 2 x CD-ROMs. on
| the second
| XP sees them as
| IDE 1 primary = C: & secondary = F:
| [i.e HDDs]
| IDE 2 primary = D: & secondary = E:.
| [i.e.CDs]
|
| I have to use an in-house [poorly written, in my view] C++ application which
| expects certain things to be on C:\ etc. and certain others on D:\ etc.
|
| How do I change these allocations?
|
| 2) On a similar machine, I've just replaced the second HDD i.e. *F:*
| (brand new, out-of -the-box Seagate 80G)
| The BIOS sees this new drive OK as does Control Panel\System\Device
| Manager but Explorer does not.
| Any ideas please?
|
| TIA
| Phil
|
|
 
Hi, Kamal.

No. With WinXP, there's no need for the old MS-DOS tools FDISK and
Format.exe. In WinXP (and Win2K and Win2K3 Server) we use Disk Management,
as Neil said.

And, as Neil said, we also use Disk Management to assign or reassign drive
letters; in Win9x/ME, we did this with Device Manager. Each time Windows
boots, it applies its built-in algorithm to assign letters in a specific
order, so if we've added a new HD or CD drive, the letters may get shifted
from what they were on the previous boot. We should use Disk Management to
specifically assign the drive letters we want, then Windows will attempt to
assign these letters each time we boot. If we assign CD/DVD drives letters
further along in the alphabet (V: for DVD, for example, or W: for a CD
writer) then we can leave the early letters (C:, D:, etc.) for our hard
drive volumes. That way, there's much less risk of shifting letters each
time we add or remove a drive.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

Kamal said:
With your brand new, out-of -the-box Seagate 80G you may have to use FDISK
and FORMAT.


neil said:
In both cases right click on "my computer" go to "manage" and then "disk
management" you should be able to change the allocation of drive letters to
drives and also see the drive without a letter, there you can format and
allocate a drive letter. Just remember changing drive letters and CDRoms may
stop other shortcuts/programs working or if a program looks for a cdrom
drive letter then it may need to be re-installed.

Neil
Muzzy said:
Two problems:-

1) On one machine I have 2 x HDDs ( on the first IDE bus) & 2 x
Click to expand...
CD-ROMs.
on
the second
XP sees them as
IDE 1 primary = C: & secondary = F:
[i.e HDDs]
IDE 2 primary = D: & secondary = E:.
[i.e.CDs]

I have to use an in-house [poorly written, in my view] C++ application which
expects certain things to be on C:\ etc. and certain others on D:\ etc.

How do I change these allocations?

2) On a similar machine, I've just replaced the second HDD i.e. *F:*
(brand new, out-of -the-box Seagate 80G)
The BIOS sees this new drive OK as does Control Panel\System\Device
Manager but Explorer does not.
Any ideas please?

TIA
Phil
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