I have no D,F,G,H but no C partition!

[Anne Onime]

I have a PATA disk formatted as 3 partitions.
I put it in another PC, but connected it to the secondary
IDE controller instead of primary.
Then I installed XP Pro upon it.
When complete, I see the DVD drive is D: and the disk
is F: G: H:
I have never seen this before.

 

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We need more Info Anne!
Primary IDE controller is Master HDD <C and up to X
Secondary IDE controller is Master DVD/CD <D and up to X

on Primary you can have Master HDD Partition 1 <C make {Secondary Master
<D}.
If Add more Partitions to HDD, As Partition 2 is <D, make {Secondary Master
<E }and so on...........

On Primary you can have Master HDD Partition 1 <C And a HDD Slave or a
DVD/CD as Slave is <D
If Add more Partitions to HDD move the HDD Slave or a DVD/CD as Slave up, so
on so.............


Now the you Error on Secondary you have DVD/CD is Master, the HDD is Slave
..... IS Why it that way!
on the Jumper Setting you need the make DVD/CD as Slave and the HDD as
Master

But if there a HDD on the Primary IDE controller you have on the Secondary
HDD as Master will be Partitions <D, <E ,<F and the DVD/CD Slave will be <G!

unplug Primary IDE controller Master HDD
And the Secondary IDE controller Master HDD will be came <C,<D,<E and the
DVD/CD Slave will be <F

 

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I have a PATA disk formatted as 3 partitions.
I put it in another PC, but connected it to the secondary
IDE controller instead of primary.

What do you have connected to your primary controller? Nothing?

Then I installed XP Pro upon it.
When complete, I see the DVD drive is D: and the disk
is F: G: H:
I have never seen this before.

I haven't either, but I've never connected anything to the second
controller when there was nothing to the first.

What happens if you reconnect the HD to the primary controller?

Currently, is this the only OS you have on the 1 or 2 harddrives?

BTW, I assume you are booting from the F: partition? So no real
problem, right? Or from the C: partition that you didnt' tell us
about? ??