In article <91b83974-5141-494b-8654-a0e00a9b9f73
@v30g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>, HiC says...
> Running XP Home and a Soyo SY-P4I865PE Plus DRAGON 2 v1.0 mobo. The
> system previously had 1 DVD drive, 1 floppy, 1 IDE drive (the C
> drive), 1 SATA secondary drive, and 3 USB 2.0 drives which I use
> mostly for storage and are normally not turned on. System recognized
> all of these drives, no issues accessing any of them.
>
> I added another internal IDE cabled in series with the C drive. I
> noticed when booting the system with the new drive, it didn't give me
> a "system configuration changed" message at the POST which has always
> been the case previously. It booted normally. It now calls the new H/D
> "F" which was formerly assigned to one of the USB drives and is now
> ignoring one of the previously recognized USB 2.0 drives. As far as I
> can tell, the MOBO is supposed to support as many drives as I have.
>
> Any suggestions as to what the issue is?
>
> Thanks for all input.
>
Yeah, its done what its supposed to do and assigned a drive letter to
the internal hard drive over the external ones.
If you go into Disk Management, you can assign the "missing" USB2 drive
a letter.
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