topic Re: Hard Drives in Disk

Hard Drives

Dennis_27 — Wed, 29 May 2002 13:07:45 GMT

I want to install another hard drive and I already have an existing hard drive. One hard drive is already set up as the mater as the C: drive and the new drive is set up as the slave, but the problem is the new drive wants to use the D: drive which is already set up for my CD-RW drive. What can I do? I have another CD Rom that uses the M: drive. I have Win98 233mhz computer. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Re: Hard Drives

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Wed, 29 May 2002 15:39:45 GMT

This is a limitation of windows 98:

http://www.winternals.com/support/detail.asp?Article=115

NT or 2K don't have the same problem (apparently)

Later,
Bill

Re: Hard Drives

Helen French — Wed, 29 May 2002 15:53:13 GMT

Configure the CD drive as E: drive.

1) Remove CD drive and boot the system
2) Configure the Hard disks first as C: and D:
3) Remove the CD drivers from the OS
4) Install the CD drive back to the system.
5) Install the drivers and configure it as E:

Re: Hard Drives

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Wed, 29 May 2002 16:05:20 GMT

Shiju, he wants the CDROM to be the D drive, not the E...
don't ask me why, but, I've got a sneaky feeling it won't be possible....

Later,
Bill

Re: Hard Drives

Helen French — Wed, 29 May 2002 18:22:10 GMT

Bill:

Interesting ..for me it doesn't matter if CD drive is D: or E:, as long as everything is working !

Re: Hard Drives

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 30 May 2002 10:04:23 GMT

I completely agree! ;)

Re: Hard Drives

Dennis_27 — Thu, 30 May 2002 12:04:40 GMT

How do you assign particular drive letters?

Re: Hard Drives

Helen French — Fri, 31 May 2002 13:47:57 GMT

Again, if you have only one disk in your system (C:) and when you add the slave disk to it, the system will automatically assign the new drive name as D:. Then if you partition it again, it will give E:.

After done with this, add CD drive, it will pick up the next drive letter (F: ?)

Re: Hard Drives

Cesar Vieira — Tue, 12 Nov 2002 18:16:23 GMT

Hi,

Are you using the Win98 CDRom drivers or legacy ones? (which loads with the Autoexec.Bat and Config.Sys)

If you're using legacy ones you can simply edit Autoexec.Bat and associated with MSCDEX.EXE that are two entries, one for the M: drive and probably another for the D:

Just change it to whatever you want.

This is assuming that you're having conflicts between CD and HDD both claiming D: for themselves.

Hope it helps you.