No hard drive letter

[Guest]

Just jumped in on this thread. I am having a very similar problem. Dell
Workstation 530, 2 40GB drives on internal (system) IDE channel, 2 200GB
drives on ATA-133 PCI card. XP boots off one of the ATA-133 drives on the PCI
card. XP sp2 Disk Manager does not allow me to assign a drive letter to the
IDE drives. That choice is greyed out. Have you found a sollution

Ooops.
Now it said ... "The system can not find the drive specified."

You forgot the colon after the letter.

This is what came up
"'f' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable

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Any clues?

 

[hogislander via WindowsKB.com]

Sorry 21M. No solution yet.

I'm pretty sure in my case I need a certain setting on the IDE HD jumper pins
in order for XP to see it properly. I've set the IDE HD to slave and XP
doesn't see it. If I set the IDE HD to master it sees it but doesnt assign a
letter. And If I use the IDE HD as the boot drive I get nothing. This IDE HD
is working in another computer fine but I want it as a slave in a newer one.
The IDE to ATA converter might be the issue but I've gotten no feed back from
the company.

Just jumped in on this thread. I am having a very similar problem. Dell
Workstation 530, 2 40GB drives on internal (system) IDE channel, 2 200GB
drives on ATA-133 PCI card. XP boots off one of the ATA-133 drives on the PCI
card. XP sp2 Disk Manager does not allow me to assign a drive letter to the
IDE drives. That choice is greyed out. Have you found a solution

Ooops.
Now it said ... "The system can not find the drive specified."

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[Lester Stiefel]

Sorry 21M. No solution yet.

I'm pretty sure in my case I need a certain setting on the IDE HD jumper pins
in order for XP to see it properly. I've set the IDE HD to slave and XP
doesn't see it. If I set the IDE HD to master it sees it but doesnt assign a
letter. And If I use the IDE HD as the boot drive I get nothing. This IDE HD
is working in another computer fine but I want it as a slave in a newer one.
The IDE to ATA converter might be the issue but I've gotten no feed back from
the company.

Just jumped in on this thread. I am having a very similar problem. Dell
Workstation 530, 2 40GB drives on internal (system) IDE channel, 2 200GB
drives on ATA-133 PCI card. XP boots off one of the ATA-133 drives on the PCI
card. XP sp2 Disk Manager does not allow me to assign a drive letter to the
IDE drives. That choice is greyed out. Have you found a solution

Ooops.
Now it said ... "The system can not find the drive specified."

[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]

Any clues?

In the one case where an ATA hard card DUAl drive is used,
make sure a dedicated memory address is used in the bios
shadowing area. then use this address for the Hardcard setup
during install. The system should then see both the older
IDE drives as well as the Newer ATA hard cards. The problem
is that the memory page for the drive access is being shared
and the architecture is not totally compatible to that type
of access. In the old DOS days the drives needed specific
memory addresses like C000, D000, D800 to work. You may need
to manually assign this type of address to get both sets of
drives to be recognised.

On the other issue, I will need addition info. The two
issues sound alike bu could be very different. Are both
drives on the same channel. Are the drives configured as
master and slave, respectively. If any drives on the same
channel are still on 'cable switch' setting, make sure they
are switched to different discreet settings as indicated.

 

[hogislander via WindowsKB.com]

Your first part blew me away. Not sure what all that means. However, the way
I understand XP and the computers bios is that all I had to do was turn on
the port that I was connecting to and Viola. This has worked many times
before with ATA HDs for me in the past.

My second issue as you call it is related to the first. I'm adapting a IDE HD
to a ATA slot with an adapter. I've set the pins up for slave and the
computer doesnt see it. (ATA slots do not require this I'm told) I set the
pins up for master and the drive is seen but no drive letter. Neither drive
is on the same channel as you put it. I have up to 4 ATA channels for HDs not
including the IDE cables used for DVD drives. I even tried switching out a
DVD drive to cut out using the adapter with the same results, seen but no
letter.

This is and old HD that still works. Thought I could throw it on and use it
as back up space.

Sorry 21M. No solution yet.

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Any clues?

In the one case where an ATA hard card DUAl drive is used,
make sure a dedicated memory address is used in the bios
shadowing area. then use this address for the Hardcard setup
during install. The system should then see both the older
IDE drives as well as the Newer ATA hard cards. The problem
is that the memory page for the drive access is being shared
and the architecture is not totally compatible to that type
of access. In the old DOS days the drives needed specific
memory addresses like C000, D000, D800 to work. You may need
to manually assign this type of address to get both sets of
drives to be recognised.

On the other issue, I will need addition info. The two
issues sound alike bu could be very different. Are both
drives on the same channel. Are the drives configured as
master and slave, respectively. If any drives on the same
channel are still on 'cable switch' setting, make sure they
are switched to different discreet settings as indicated.

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem..went to my brothers house who is running
windows 2000 proffessional and was able to assign a drive letter to the drive
and access its contents with my drive slaved to his. D'ont know why this
wont work with XP pro?

Hi, the option is there to change the drive letter but it is not highlighted
so I am unable to click on it.

If it is a HDD you will need to go into disk management and assign it a drive
letter.
Right click on the drive and select change drive letter, then select the
letter you want to use.

I have a IDE drive from my old computer and hooked up a IDE to SATA converter
to adapt it to my newer computer as a back up. The computer sees the drive

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Any clues?