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| 211 | 1998-09-04 04:59:00 | I read with interest Kalpesh Acharya?s problem of getting two hard drives to work together. I have run two hard drives quite successfully before, that was until one of them fell over! I run a Pentium 133 with 48mb RAM. I have a 1.6GB and added another secondhand 1.2GB. I set the jumpers on the new drive as secondary, plugged it all together, started the computer and both drive were recognized by CMOS. Since I have an older version of Windows 95 and am an avid reader or PC World I ran Fdisk and partitioned the 1.6GB C: into 1GB and .6GB, and the second drive into 1GB and .2GB. Strange things happened with the drive letters. . .1GB was C:, the 1GB partition on the second drive became D: back to the first drive .6GB for E: and .2GB on the second drive was F:. I copied the cab files from the Windows CD onto drive F: and installed Windows onto drive C:. I then installed the majority of my applications onto drive E: and kept my data on drive D:. This was all very cool until the second drive crashed, with out a second drive E: became D: and Windows didn?t know where to look to find anything. My question is, is there away of nailing a drive letter to a specific partition. I presume that it will have to be done before Windows as the hard drive letters are shaded in System in the Control Panel. Cheers, Wayne Keating. |
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| 212 | 2005-03-19 09:54:00 | I read with interest Kalpesh Acharya?s problem of getting two hard drives to work together . I have run two hard drives quite successfully before, that was until one of them fell over! I run a Pentium 133 with 48mb RAM . I have a 1 . 6GB and added another secondhand 1 . 2GB . I set the jumpers on the new drive as secondary, plugged it all together, started the computer and both drive were recognized by CMOS . Since I have an older version of Windows 95 and am an avid reader or PC World I ran Fdisk and partitioned the 1 . 6GB C: into 1GB and . 6GB, and the second drive into 1GB and . 2GB . Strange things happened with the drive letters . . . 1GB was C:, the 1GB partition on the second drive became D: back to the first drive . 6GB for E: and . 2GB on the second drive was F: . I copied the cab files from the Windows CD onto drive F: and installed Windows onto drive C: . I then installed the majority of my applications onto drive E: and kept my data on drive D: . This was all very cool until the second drive crashed, with out a second drive E: became D: and Windows didn?t know where to look to find anything . My question is, is there away of nailing a drive letter to a specific partition . I presume that it will have to be done before Windows as the hard drive letters are shaded in System in the Control Panel . Cheers, Wayne Keating . Hi wayne, try partition magic, it will show you both FAT and NTFS partitions and perhaps you have got (hidden) partitions in which case you will need to load (boot magic) from within partition magic . As you know withXp you can see both FAT and NTFS but its not visible from 98 or 95 versions only FAT 32 . |
steamman (82) | ||
| 213 | 2005-03-19 10:04:00 | 6.5 years. :cool: | Scouse (83) | ||
| 214 | 2005-03-19 10:45:00 | Being able to choose the letters easily is a WinXP thing. Win98 you weren't supposed to. But: www.wambooli.com and: www.annoyances.org |
pctek (84) | ||
| 215 | 2005-03-19 23:50:00 | 6.5 years......LOL BTW try the FAQ section ;) |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 216 | 2005-03-20 00:20:00 | this is a record in the making :rolleyes: | Prescott (11) | ||
| 217 | 2005-03-20 10:40:00 | Strange things happened with the drive letters . . . 1GB was C:, the 1GB partition on the second drive became D: back to the first drive . 6GB for E: and . 2GB on the second drive was F: . There is a good reason for this: DOS and Windows 9x follows a rule for allocating drive letters to partitions that Win2k and WinXP doesn't . In DOS, primary partitions get a disk drive letter before any logical drives . This applies across drives . |
johnd (85) | ||
| 218 | 2005-03-20 11:36:00 | Hi Wayne. Assuming that it is still available, a free prog called Letter Assigner by Vadim Burtyansky should do the trick for you. It is designed to work with w95 and 98 (I have used it for 3 faultless years with a w95 system containing 2 HDDs each with 3 partitions), and assigns letters of your choice to the various drives (including the CD). I had to play around with it a bit for a start to get it to work properly but once set up it was fine. I suspected, but did not prove, that it is necessary to set up and save the master drive assignments first, then do the slave, although having done the master the slave assignments may fall into place without prompting. The links I recorded 3 years ago were - Letter Assigner homepage - www.bigfoot.co. Download site - www.v72735.f2s.com Author's address - vadbrtn@bigfoot.com HTH |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 219 | 2005-03-20 11:48:00 | Wayne posted this question back in 1998, I doubt very much he is still waiting for his answer. Check out the dates on the posts. You mustn't of noticed the dates, but it is good of you to try and help out anyway. :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 220 | 2005-03-20 12:18:00 | Are you not seeing a pattern here Jen? Every week some new random person bumps up a post from years ago. I think its the same person doing it for entertainment. :lol: |
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