Hard Drive enumeration

[Guest]

I just installed Win 2000 on a new WD 40 gig drive. After
that was completed I installed a second WD 40 gig drive.
Instead of this action moving the CD Drive to the E drive
position, the CD stayed at D and the second drive
installed as E. So I now have a C drive and a E drive.

The CMOS shows the two hard drives installed as Primary
IDE Master and Slave respectively. The CD Drive installed
as the Secondary IDE Master.

Is there a Microsoft document that deals with this or is
there someone who knows how to fix this?

Thanks

 

[CJT]

I just installed Win 2000 on a new WD 40 gig drive. After
that was completed I installed a second WD 40 gig drive.
Instead of this action moving the CD Drive to the E drive
position, the CD stayed at D and the second drive
installed as E. So I now have a C drive and a E drive.

The CMOS shows the two hard drives installed as Primary
IDE Master and Slave respectively. The CD Drive installed
as the Secondary IDE Master.

Is there a Microsoft document that deals with this or is
there someone who knows how to fix this?

Thanks

Fix what?

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry! By fixing, I meant changing the position in
Explorer of hard drive 2 to D (it's now E), and the CD
drive to E (it's now D)

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

I just installed Win 2000 on a new WD 40 gig drive. After
that was completed I installed a second WD 40 gig drive.
Instead of this action moving the CD Drive to the E drive
position, the CD stayed at D and the second drive
installed as E. So I now have a C drive and a E drive.

The CMOS shows the two hard drives installed as Primary
IDE Master and Slave respectively. The CD Drive installed
as the Secondary IDE Master.

Is there a Microsoft document that deals with this or is
there someone who knows how to fix this?

Thanks

You can reassign drive letters in Disk Management. Right click on My
Computer and choose Manage and then select Disk Management. Assign the
CDRom a drive letter of F. Then assign hard drive a letter of D. I would
leave the CDRom at F or even later in case you add more drives.

Leonard Severt
Microsoft Enterprise Support