New Hard drive nightmare

[villein]

Hi,
In my system properties, the ability to assign a drive letter is greyed out. I can't get my new hard drive to show in explorer, I think, because of this. My orginal hard drive letter is also greyed out, so I can't change that either. Only my CD-ROM is able to be changed. Is it something I did during tweaking? Is it TweakIU? I added the F drive in TweakIU to push my CD_ROM to the new letter, but now the CD-ROM is on F:, C: drive is present, but D: is stll not showing. On System Properties, there are 2 hard drives present.
I copied my files onto the new hard drive, so that I can use the new faster drive.
BIOS shows both drives
Win98 latest BIOS

Thx in advance!

 

[villein]

bump

 

[thomsbrain]

Did you use fdisk to partition and format the new drive before you booted windows?

 

[villein]

No, I used Maxtor's software.

 

[villein]

Bump

 

[HappyPuppy]

Need info. Why did you use TweakUI to create F: drive and then assign it to the CDROM? What was wrong with where the CD drive was, which I assume was D:, correct?

 

[santar72]

Which OS are you running? Is master/slave setting correct on the HD?

 

[villein]

Master/slave settings correct. TweakUI was used to eliminate dross letter values, but not the basics of A,B,C,D,E and F

 

[Jiggz]

Since you changed the drive assignment of the CD-Rom in Tweak UI then you should use Tweak UI again to re-assign the driver letter of the CD-Rom. As for the HDD, you cannot change the drive letter assignments on HDD unless MS has recently change the drive assignment convention. Dos, which is used by windows 9X version assigns drive letters in the following way: 1st hdd connected on the master primary controller gets the C: letter. Second HDD master on the secondary controller gets the D: letter. Then slave primary gets the E: letter and slave secondary gets the F: letter. After all the HDD's get their letter then logical drives (partitions) will be assigned the succeeding letters. Other devices loaded with software drivers, i.e. cd-roms, DVD's, Zips or other removable get the next letter after all hdd and logical drives according to their precedence of loading either in the config.sys or the autoexec.bat.

So if you have one hdd with one partition, the C: will be the designation letter and cannot be changed;
If you have one hdd with two partitions, the C and D letters will be assigned and cannot be changed.
If you have two hdd and each has only one partition, C and D letters will be assigned
and so forth.

Hope this helps.

 

[Radboy]

primary slave gets letters b4 secondary master.