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I installed a 2d HD and both drives are listed at Location 0(0). How do I chg
the location of the second drive?
 
smiling face said:
What do you mean at location 0(0)?
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When you click the drive in "my computer" and go to properties, both drives
are listed as being in location 0(0)
 
When you click the drive in "my computer" and go to properties, both
drives are listed as being in location 0(0)
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ironman:
Don't be concerned about the 0(0) designation. It's of no significance. What
is the problem you're experiencing? Is one of your HDs not being recognized
in the system?
Anna
 
Anna said:
ironman:
Don't be concerned about the 0(0) designation. It's of no significance. What
is the problem you're experiencing? Is one of your HDs not being recognized
in the system?
Anna

Yes - its listed everywhere, device manager lists it as ok. Ihave no idea
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how to access it
 
Glenn Shultz said:
how to access it
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ironman:
First of all, are you reasonably certain the drive is not
mechanically/electrically defective?

Is the drive new? Have you partitioned/formatted it?

If it's not defective and you've properly partitioned/formatted it, are you
sure that it's correctly installed, i.e., its IDE cable is properly
connected and it's jumpered correctly?

Is it shown in Disk Management? And if so, has a drive letter been assigned
to it?

It would really be helpful if you would provide as much detail as you can
about how you installed this drive.
Anna
 
Anna said:
ironman:
First of all, are you reasonably certain the drive is not
mechanically/electrically defective?

Is the drive new? Have you partitioned/formatted it?

If it's not defective and you've properly partitioned/formatted it, are you
sure that it's correctly installed, i.e., its IDE cable is properly
connected and it's jumpered correctly?

Is it shown in Disk Management? And if so, has a drive letter been assigned
to it?

It would really be helpful if you would provide as much detail as you can
about how you installed this drive.
Anna

Ironman
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I'll try to gives you as much info as I can. In Computer Management under
Storage the Disk Management list the two drives as follows: My boot Drive
is listed as Disk O Basic 75 .25 GB On Line; The drive is listed as "DRV
1_VOL 1 (C}listed as Healthy (System). The drive in question is listed as
Disk l, Basic 19.25 GB On Line, with no drive letter assigned, listed as
Healthy (Active). The first Drive is on a single cable and jumpered as
Master. The second drive is on the second cable with the CDR as slave and
the drive in question jumpered as secondary master.
The drive is good I'm certain of that. The only thing is it was not
assigned a drive letter.

What I was trying to do was transfer the files the the first hard drive and
format the second using it for storage. But it seems that I can't get this
done.

I appreciate you time and help.

Ironman
 
Glenn Shultz said:
I'll try to gives you as much info as I can. In Computer Management under
Storage the Disk Management list the two drives as follows: My boot Drive
is listed as Disk O Basic 75 .25 GB On Line; The drive is listed as "DRV
1_VOL 1 (C}listed as Healthy (System). The drive in question is listed as
Disk l, Basic 19.25 GB On Line, with no drive letter assigned, listed as
Healthy (Active). The first Drive is on a single cable and jumpered as
Master. The second drive is on the second cable with the CDR as slave and
the drive in question jumpered as secondary master.
The drive is good I'm certain of that. The only thing is it was not
assigned a drive letter.

What I was trying to do was transfer the files the the first hard drive
and
format the second using it for storage. But it seems that I can't get
this
done.

I appreciate you time and help.

Ironman
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Ironman:
In Disk Management, lower pane, if you right-click on the graphic of that
second drive, you should get an option in the sub-menu that opens indicating
"Change Drive Letter and Paths..." and you should be able to assign a drive
letter to the drive after choosing that option. Are you able to do this?
Anna
 
Art said:
Ironman:
In Disk Management, lower pane, if you right-click on the graphic of that
second drive, you should get an option in the sub-menu that opens indicating
"Change Drive Letter and Paths..." and you should be able to assign a drive
letter to the drive after choosing that option. Are you able to do this?
Anna

No. when I right click this drive that option is not available. The only
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options available are "Delete Partition and Help"

Ironman
 
Anna - when I run diskpart the following is what i get: "Itry to assign a
drive letter nad it comes back with "the volume you specified is not valid
or does not exist. Ironman
 
Ironman responds...
No. when I right click this drive that option is not available. The only
options available are "Delete Partition and Help"

Ironman
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Ironman:
You're absolutely sure you've jumpered the drive correctly as Secondary
Master and that its IDE connector is securely fastened, right? If so, and
the system is still not assigning a drive letter then try connecting the
drive as Primary Slave and see if a drive letter is automatically assigned
when it's so connected. If that works, try connecting your CD-ROM (or CD-RW)
as Secondary Master to see if there's a problem with the system recognizing
that device. If so, that would tend to indicate a problem with the
motherboard's IDE Secondary connector. Rarely a problem, but it does happen.

I take it this second drive is a fairly old drive, right? And you're certain
that you've properly configured it, right? The install of this second drive
is a new install I assume. Where did the drive come from? Were there any
problems with it in the previous machine from which it came?
Anna
 
Anna said:
Ironman responds...
No. when I right click this drive that option is not available. The only

Ironman:
You're absolutely sure you've jumpered the drive correctly as Secondary
Master and that its IDE connector is securely fastened, right? If so, and
the system is still not assigning a drive letter then try connecting the
drive as Primary Slave and see if a drive letter is automatically assigned
when it's so connected. If that works, try connecting your CD-ROM (or CD-RW)
as Secondary Master to see if there's a problem with the system recognizing
that device. If so, that would tend to indicate a problem with the
motherboard's IDE Secondary connector. Rarely a problem, but it does happen.

I take it this second drive is a fairly old drive, right? And you're certain
that you've properly configured it, right? The install of this second drive
is a new install I assume. Where did the drive come from? Were there any
problems with it in the previous machine from which it came?
Anna

I tried every configuration I could but nothing seems to work. the second
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drive isn't that old 2001, I had bought it as a 2d drive on an old 98
packard bell computer that only had a 300 processor with 3GB HD, this drive
works fine when I reinstall in old computer as I still have it. It just
doesn't make sense that the drive is recognized evereware but I just can't
access it because it won't assign it a letter. Could the problem be that it
is listed as a partitionl. I ran diskpart but cannot get anywhere.

Thanks for all your help but I think I'll just store it somewhere until I
upgrade my MB.

Glenn
 
I am also having the same problem and I know all my drives are good. Exact
same problem. My slave drive and SATA drive don't have a drive letter any
more after wiping my drive and reinstalling Windoes XP. device manager shows
them there and healty but not drive letter associant and the only selection
available is to partiation. I don't waht to los this data.... any help here?
 
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