Windows does not assign a letter to my slave harddrive
I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives – 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB
one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can not see the 40 GB one in My Computer. I can see it in the setup, and I can also find it named as ‘Generic Disk’ in the ‘Disk Drives’ under Control Panel\System\Device Manager. But there is no letter assigned to it. And it does not allow me to manually assign the letter. I have the Hard Drive installation disk but it requires the erase of the disk. Is there any way that I can bring back that disk without erase the files already in there? |
Windows does not assign a letter to my slave harddrive
a pc with a 10GB original drive may be old enough that the BIOS cannot
support drives larger than (something (32GB?afair?)) if that is the case then there was a drive overlay installed on the boot drive previously that allowed the pc to access the 40GB, a drive larger than specified in the bios. Goto the manufacturers web site of the 'unseen' drive and look for drive overlays. Maxtor produce MaxBlast, WD produce DataLifeguard. Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Ensure that this is the right solution before you do anything, check BIOS settings drive types etc it is possible to *expletive*deleted* the pc again if an overlay is improperly installed. -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Hua Wang" wrote in message ... I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives - 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can not see the 40 GB one in My Computer. I can see it in the setup, and I can also find it named as 'Generic Disk' in the 'Disk Drives' under Control Panel\System\Device Manager. But there is no letter assigned to it. And it does not allow me to manually assign the letter. I have the Hard Drive installation disk but it requires the erase of the disk. Is there any way that I can bring back that disk without erase the files already in there? |
Windows does not assign a letter to my slave harddrive
Thanks for your response:
But when I start the PC and push F10 to get in the Setup, I can see this drive defined as primary slave with correct size 40960MB. Also If I use fdisk under MS-DOS Promt, I can see this drive but with no letter. This 40 GB drive worked fine in this machine before it crashed. Since I already save a lot of files there, I hope I can save them without erase them with HD installation program or fdisk. "AlmostBob" wrote: a pc with a 10GB original drive may be old enough that the BIOS cannot support drives larger than (something (32GB?afair?)) if that is the case then there was a drive overlay installed on the boot drive previously that allowed the pc to access the 40GB, a drive larger than specified in the bios. Goto the manufacturers web site of the 'unseen' drive and look for drive overlays. Maxtor produce MaxBlast, WD produce DataLifeguard. Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Ensure that this is the right solution before you do anything, check BIOS settings drive types etc it is possible to *expletive*deleted* the pc again if an overlay is improperly installed. -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Hua Wang" wrote in message ... I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives - 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can not see the 40 GB one in My Computer. I can see it in the setup, and I can also find it named as 'Generic Disk' in the 'Disk Drives' under Control Panel\System\Device Manager. But there is no letter assigned to it. And it does not allow me to manually assign the letter. I have the Hard Drive installation disk but it requires the erase of the disk. Is there any way that I can bring back that disk without erase the files already in there? |
Windows does not assign a letter to my slave harddrive
Your hard drive installation software should have the option to install it
to the boot drive without configuring the slave drive. This is the option you want, as the slave drive is already configured with the special partitioning, but the software needed to access it isn't being loaded at boot time. The fact that you can see the drive correctly in BIOS setup simply means that (perhaps) the overlay configuration isn't necessary. But since you have already configured the slave drive with that software, then Windows will only see the partitioning (and the files) if you install the access software to the boot drive. If your BIOS really can cope with a drive that size then you could erase that slave drive and start over without the overlay software, but it seems that's what you are trying to avoid. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Hua Wang" wrote in message ... Thanks for your response: But when I start the PC and push F10 to get in the Setup, I can see this drive defined as primary slave with correct size 40960MB. Also If I use fdisk under MS-DOS Promt, I can see this drive but with no letter. This 40 GB drive worked fine in this machine before it crashed. Since I already save a lot of files there, I hope I can save them without erase them with HD installation program or fdisk. "AlmostBob" wrote: a pc with a 10GB original drive may be old enough that the BIOS cannot support drives larger than (something (32GB?afair?)) if that is the case then there was a drive overlay installed on the boot drive previously that allowed the pc to access the 40GB, a drive larger than specified in the bios. Goto the manufacturers web site of the 'unseen' drive and look for drive overlays. Maxtor produce MaxBlast, WD produce DataLifeguard. Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Ensure that this is the right solution before you do anything, check BIOS settings drive types etc it is possible to *expletive*deleted* the pc again if an overlay is improperly installed. -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Hua Wang" wrote in message ... I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives - 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can not see the 40 GB one in My Computer. I can see it in the setup, and I can also find it named as 'Generic Disk' in the 'Disk Drives' under Control Panel\System\Device Manager. But there is no letter assigned to it. And it does not allow me to manually assign the letter. I have the Hard Drive installation disk but it requires the erase of the disk. Is there any way that I can bring back that disk without erase the files already in there? |
Windows does not assign a letter to my slave harddrive
thats what a crash is, dont work no more
please try, enter the bios and page through the list of drive types, without changing any settings, escape out or f(whichever) to not save, If none of the supported drive types are 40GB or larger then you require the manufacturers drive overlay. Type 47, ((or 63 or 127) (whatever the highest number in the bios version)) are manually configured drive types for which overlays are often required. If supported(named) drive types are over 40Gb, you dont and my idea is useless. reported, inaccessible drives after a reinstall have been due to missing overlay software many times before, the Bios knows the drive is there and its size, but does not know how to address it -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Hua Wang" wrote in message ... Thanks for your response: But when I start the PC and push F10 to get in the Setup, I can see this drive defined as primary slave with correct size 40960MB. Also If I use fdisk under MS-DOS Promt, I can see this drive but with no letter. This 40 GB drive worked fine in this machine before it crashed. Since I already save a lot of files there, I hope I can save them without erase them with HD installation program or fdisk. "AlmostBob" wrote: a pc with a 10GB original drive may be old enough that the BIOS cannot support drives larger than (something (32GB?afair?)) if that is the case then there was a drive overlay installed on the boot drive previously that allowed the pc to access the 40GB, a drive larger than specified in the bios. Goto the manufacturers web site of the 'unseen' drive and look for drive overlays. Maxtor produce MaxBlast, WD produce DataLifeguard. Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Read the instructions, Ensure that this is the right solution before you do anything, check BIOS settings drive types etc it is possible to *expletive*deleted* the pc again if an overlay is improperly installed. -- - Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com Panda online AntiSpyware Scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/ Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Hua Wang" wrote in message ... I have a PIII Windows 98 PC with two Hard Drives - 10 GB and 40 GB. The 10 GB one used to store the software and 40 GB one store the files like photos and doc. For some reason the PC crashed and I had to reformat the 10 GB one and reinstalled the windows 98. However, after the installation, I can not see the 40 GB one in My Computer. I can see it in the setup, and I can also find it named as 'Generic Disk' in the 'Disk Drives' under Control Panel\System\Device Manager. But there is no letter assigned to it. And it does not allow me to manually assign the letter. I have the Hard Drive installation disk but it requires the erase of the disk. Is there any way that I can bring back that disk without erase the files already in there? |
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