Re: [Sheflug] New hardware confusion

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 22:46 +0100, J Simpson wrote:

> He also said I had two optical something? so I would not beable to all
> three drives connected.
> 

two optical drives, the cd and the dvd. Most dvd drives will happily
read cds do you could probably do without the cd drive.

> Robin wrote:
> >What you propose sounds ok, the only problem may be because the 20g
> drive has moved from primary to secondary or slave, win95 may see it D:
> rather than as C: and so win95 will die.>
> 
> I understand this (I think).  But if wins 98 can't see the new big drive
> why is it going to become D:.  Will something else tell it it is D:?

I'm not a windows guru but from some experience of this kind of
situation windows labels the drives as they are on the cables. Therefore
the primary disk on the first ide channel will be C:, the secondary disk
on the first channel will be D:, primary on the second E and secondary
on the second F. assuming they are all single partitions. I think! 

So, if you move a disk from primary to secondary then it may change
letters just because of the move. There is some disk manager software in
later versions of windows which will let you change things back but
you'd have to be able to boot first to do it which is where you have the
problem if windows is looking for files on C: but not having a C: to
look at.

I hope that makes sense and I hope it is right.

Robin

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