Hard Drives

[Dennis_27]

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.

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

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

[Helen French]

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:

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

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

[Helen French]

Bill:

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

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

I completely agree! ;)

[Dennis_27]

How do you assign particular drive letters?

[Helen French]

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: ?)

[Cesar Vieira]

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.