Re: [Sheflug] New hardware confusion

[(Ted Harding) <ted.harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24-Jul-07 22:11:04, Robin Wood wrote:
> 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! 

Confirmed! A friend of mine had a single drive (primary master)
partitioned into C:, D:, E: and F: (as Win98 called them). Then
installed a second HDD as primary slave. Win98 now called the
single partition on the new HDD D:, and the old D:, E: and F:
moved up to E:, F: and G:.

Since some of the installed software depended on the previous
drive lettering, we installed a freeware utility called "Letter
Assigner" ( http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssign ). This worked
(but I think it's only for Win95/98/ME; I think Win2K & WInXP
allow the "administrator" to do it from within the system).
But whatever you do, partition 1 on the primary master will
always be C:.


> 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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