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trying to slave a hard drive w/out formatting
Hello, all,
I was using my mother's computer because mine blew the motherboard/pcu chip. Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, I installed mine as master and hers as slave. I did this because I want access to files and programs on hers, most importantly a driver file that I need for the PCI video adapter. BIOS finds it, as does system's hardware manager. Unfortunately, I am unable to assign a drive letter to it. Is there a way I can do this without formatting the slave drive? Thank You, Scott |
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What filing system is in use on your mother's hard drive? If NTFS as used
by Win2K and XP then Win Me will not be able to access the partition without the use of third party drivers. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP cowboy6665 wrote: Hello, all, I was using my mother's computer because mine blew the motherboard/pcu chip. Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, I installed mine as master and hers as slave. I did this because I want access to files and programs on hers, most importantly a driver file that I need for the PCI video adapter. BIOS finds it, as does system's hardware manager. Unfortunately, I am unable to assign a drive letter to it. Is there a way I can do this without formatting the slave drive? Thank You, Scott |
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Sorry, should have mentioned that both drives are using WinME.
"Mike M" wrote: What filing system is in use on your mother's hard drive? If NTFS as used by Win2K and XP then Win Me will not be able to access the partition without the use of third party drivers. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP cowboy6665 wrote: Hello, all, I was using my mother's computer because mine blew the motherboard/pcu chip. Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, I installed mine as master and hers as slave. I did this because I want access to files and programs on hers, most importantly a driver file that I need for the PCI video adapter. BIOS finds it, as does system's hardware manager. Unfortunately, I am unable to assign a drive letter to it. Is there a way I can do this without formatting the slave drive? Thank You, Scott |
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only thing that comes to mind if you actually didn't mix up the select
jumpers somehow (ie: 2 masters or 1 master and 1 cs) is maybe your HD has some fixed drive-letter assignments or a maximum drive-letter assignment. Try it in Safe Mode or boot from a WinME Emergency Bootdisk (or one that can read FAT32 anyways). Rick cowboy6665 wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that both drives are using WinME. "Mike M" wrote: What filing system is in use on your mother's hard drive? If NTFS as used by Win2K and XP then Win Me will not be able to access the partition without the use of third party drivers. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP cowboy6665 wrote: Hello, all, I was using my mother's computer because mine blew the motherboard/pcu chip. Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, I installed mine as master and hers as slave. I did this because I want access to files and programs on hers, most importantly a driver file that I need for the PCI video adapter. BIOS finds it, as does system's hardware manager. Unfortunately, I am unable to assign a drive letter to it. Is there a way I can do this without formatting the slave drive? Thank You, Scott |
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Fair comment Rick, however hidden in cowboy's first post :-
... Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, Mmm.. puts a slightly different complexion on things ?? I would suggest a few more tests, like can it be seen in Real Mode DOS using the WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk (EBD), as you already alluded in you reply and a scandisk surface test(with all the data safeguard warnings), The disk may already be sufficiently 'damaged' that it can't be seen in its present state. Mart "Rick T" wrote in message ... only thing that comes to mind if you actually didn't mix up the select jumpers somehow (ie: 2 masters or 1 master and 1 cs) is maybe your HD has some fixed drive-letter assignments or a maximum drive-letter assignment. Try it in Safe Mode or boot from a WinME Emergency Bootdisk (or one that can read FAT32 anyways). Rick cowboy6665 wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that both drives are using WinME. "Mike M" wrote: What filing system is in use on your mother's hard drive? If NTFS as used by Win2K and XP then Win Me will not be able to access the partition without the use of third party drivers. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP cowboy6665 wrote: Hello, all, I was using my mother's computer because mine blew the motherboard/pcu chip. Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, I installed mine as master and hers as slave. I did this because I want access to files and programs on hers, most importantly a driver file that I need for the PCI video adapter. BIOS finds it, as does system's hardware manager. Unfortunately, I am unable to assign a drive letter to it. Is there a way I can do this without formatting the slave drive? Thank You, Scott |
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Well it doesn't help that the OS is configured for a different system.
So I'd suggest anything done in Windows to be done in Safe Mode. Rick Mart wrote: Fair comment Rick, however hidden in cowboy's first post :- ... Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, Mmm.. puts a slightly different complexion on things ?? I would suggest a few more tests, like can it be seen in Real Mode DOS using the WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk (EBD), as you already alluded in you reply and a scandisk surface test(with all the data safeguard warnings), The disk may already be sufficiently 'damaged' that it can't be seen in its present state. Mart "Rick T" wrote in message ... only thing that comes to mind if you actually didn't mix up the select jumpers somehow (ie: 2 masters or 1 master and 1 cs) is maybe your HD has some fixed drive-letter assignments or a maximum drive-letter assignment. Try it in Safe Mode or boot from a WinME Emergency Bootdisk (or one that can read FAT32 anyways). Rick cowboy6665 wrote: Sorry, should have mentioned that both drives are using WinME. "Mike M" wrote: What filing system is in use on your mother's hard drive? If NTFS as used by Win2K and XP then Win Me will not be able to access the partition without the use of third party drivers. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP cowboy6665 wrote: Hello, all, I was using my mother's computer because mine blew the motherboard/pcu chip. Because of errors that developed on her hard drive, I installed mine as master and hers as slave. I did this because I want access to files and programs on hers, most importantly a driver file that I need for the PCI video adapter. BIOS finds it, as does system's hardware manager. Unfortunately, I am unable to assign a drive letter to it. Is there a way I can do this without formatting the slave drive? Thank You, Scott |
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