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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Hardware / July 2006No hard drive letter
I have a IDE drive from my old computer and hooked up a IDE to SATA converter to adapt it to my newer computer as a back up. The computer sees the drive and the partition on the drive but it doesn't assign it a drive letter. Thinking it was the converter, I swapped out one of my DVD drives and used its IDE connection with the same results. I do not want to repartition the drive with out pulling info of of the old drive first. Any clues? What letter is assigned in Disk Management? Is the letter hidden using TweakUI? > I have a IDE drive from my old computer and hooked up a IDE to SATA converter > to adapt it to my newer computer as a back up. The computer sees the drive [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Any clues? There is no letter assigned in disk management. The 20 GB hard drive shows up as only "18.56 GB FAT32 Healthy (Active)" As far as I can tell in TweakUI, it is not hidden. All boxes ar check under drives in TweakUI and the only letters in use ar C,D,E,F. D and E are DVD drives and F is associated with a program that shows up as another DVD/CD drive. >What letter is assigned in Disk Management? Is the letter hidden using >TweakUI? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >> >> Any clues? Hi, May I suggest still connecting the hard drive to the primary ide port? Try it as a master, but then as a slave if that does not work. Good luck. Hi, I did try using it as a master and I got as far as a blinking cursor. The IDE old hard drive has jumper pins and if I remove the jumper, as the IDE Segeta model manual suggests for slave operation, the computer doesnt even recognize the drive or the partition let alone give it a letter. But when the pin is placed back as before it sees the drive and partition but no drive letter. >Hi, May I suggest still connecting the hard drive to the primary ide >port? Try it as a master, but then as a slave if that does not work. >Good luck. Try going back into Drive Management, then right click on the drive that has no letter assigned. Next click 'Change Drive Letter' and then click 'Add'. From the list of available letters select the letter you wish to assign, then click 'OK'. Repeat these steps if your drive has more than one partition. Jim > There is no letter assigned in disk management. The 20 GB hard drive > shows [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >>> >>> Any clues? Hi, the option is there to change the drive letter but it is not highlighted so I am unable to click on it. >Try going back into Drive Management, then right click on the drive that has >no letter assigned. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >>>> >>>> Any clues? My guess is that the system wants it as F but that software has "stepped" on it. Disable the software or change it from "F" in the software parameters and then check for drive letters. > There is no letter assigned in disk management. The 20 GB hard drive shows > up as only "18.56 GB FAT32 Healthy (Active)" [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> >>>Any clues? Changed the virtual drive letter in Alcohol 120% from F to G. Rebooted, and still nothing. So I uninstalled the program all together and still no luck in getting a drive letter. I few months ago I changed out the my hard drive as it was starting to crash and I swapped in a new drive and used the bad one as a slave and was able to salvage info. And the virtual drive associated with the program didn't effect my computer assigning a letter that time. >My guess is that the system wants it as F but that software has >"stepped" on it. Disable the software or change it from "F" in the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >>> >>>>Any clues? Can you access it from the command line as F? If there is no important data, can format it? > Changed the virtual drive letter in Alcohol 120% from F to G. Rebooted, and > still nothing. So I uninstalled the program all together and still no luck in [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >>>>>Any clues? Formatting is an option but after I pull some data off. My last option is to install a DVD burner into the old computer. Would rather I be able to just read the HDD as a slave. Baffaling ... even the Dell people cant figure this one out. >Can you access it from the command line as F? If there is no important >data, can format it? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>> >>>>>>Any clues? Can you access it from the command line as F? > Formatting is an option but after I pull some data off. My last option is to > install a DVD burner into the old computer. Would rather I be able to just [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >>>>>>>Any clues? Not sure how to do that ... please advise. Thanx >Can you access it from the command line as F? > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>> >>>>>>>>Any clues? Go to Start, Run, CMD <enter>, you are now at the Command prompt. Try entering F: and hit enter to access the "F" drive. > Not sure how to do that ... please advise. Thanx > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> >>>>>>>>>Any clues? This is what came up "'f' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file" >Go to Start, Run, CMD <enter>, you are now at the Command prompt. Try >entering F: and hit enter to access the "F" drive. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>> >>>>>>>>>>Any clues? You forgot the colon after the letter.  SignatureJason Tsang - Microsoft MVP Find out about the MS MVP Program - http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx > This is what came up > "'f' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >>>> >>>>>>>>>>>Any clues? Ooops. Now it said ... "The system can not find the drive specified." >You forgot the colon after the letter. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>Any clues? Well, provided all the jumpers are indeed correct(master drive and slave both), XP doens't recognize the drive in its current condition. > Ooops. > Now it said ... "The system can not find the drive specified." [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> >>>>>>>>>>>>>Any clues? Just jumped in on this thread. I am having a very similar problem. Dell Workstation 530, 2 40GB drives on internal (system) IDE channel, 2 200GB drives on ATA-133 PCI card. XP boots off one of the ATA-133 drives on the PCI card. XP sp2 Disk Manager does not allow me to assign a drive letter to the IDE drives. That choice is greyed out. Have you found a sollution > Ooops. > Now it said ... "The system can not find the drive specified." [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >>>>> > >>>>>>>>>>>>Any clues? Sorry 21M. No solution yet. I'm pretty sure in my case I need a certain setting on the IDE HD jumper pins in order for XP to see it properly. I've set the IDE HD to slave and XP doesn't see it. If I set the IDE HD to master it sees it but doesnt assign a letter. And If I use the IDE HD as the boot drive I get nothing. This IDE HD is working in another computer fine but I want it as a slave in a newer one. The IDE to ATA converter might be the issue but I've gotten no feed back from the company. >Just jumped in on this thread. I am having a very similar problem. Dell >Workstation 530, 2 40GB drives on internal (system) IDE channel, 2 200GB [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> >>>>> >> >>>>>>>>>>>>Any clues? > Sorry 21M. No solution yet. > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Any clues? In the one case where an ATA hard card DUAl drive is used, make sure a dedicated memory address is used in the bios shadowing area. then use this address for the Hardcard setup during install. The system should then see both the older IDE drives as well as the Newer ATA hard cards. The problem is that the memory page for the drive access is being shared and the architecture is not totally compatible to that type of access. In the old DOS days the drives needed specific memory addresses like C000, D000, D800 to work. You may need to manually assign this type of address to get both sets of drives to be recognised. On the other issue, I will need addition info. The two issues sound alike bu could be very different. Are both drives on the same channel. Are the drives configured as master and slave, respectively. If any drives on the same channel are still on 'cable switch' setting, make sure they are switched to different discreet settings as indicated. SignatureLester Stiefel In Romans 1 there are qualities of Unregenerate man listed which describe him in the last days. Is your quality found on this list?? Your first part blew me away. Not sure what all that means. However, the way I understand XP and the computers bios is that all I had to do was turn on the port that I was connecting to and Viola. This has worked many times before with ATA HDs for me in the past. My second issue as you call it is related to the first. I'm adapting a IDE HD to a ATA slot with an adapter. I've set the pins up for slave and the computer doesnt see it. (ATA slots do not require this I'm told) I set the pins up for master and the drive is seen but no drive letter. Neither drive is on the same channel as you put it. I have up to 4 ATA channels for HDs not including the IDE cables used for DVD drives. I even tried switching out a DVD drive to cut out using the adapter with the same results, seen but no letter. This is and old HD that still works. Thought I could throw it on and use it as back up space. >> Sorry 21M. No solution yet. >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >channel are still on 'cable switch' setting, make sure they >are switched to different discreet settings as indicated. If it is a HDD you will need to go into disk management and assign it a drive letter. Right click on the drive and select change drive letter, then select the letter you want to use. > I have a IDE drive from my old computer and hooked up a IDE to SATA converter > to adapt it to my newer computer as a back up. The computer sees the drive [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Any clues? Hi, the option is there to change the drive letter but it is not highlighted so I am unable to click on it. >If it is a HDD you will need to go into disk management and assign it a drive >letter. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >> >> Any clues? I am having the same problem..went to my brothers house who is running windows 2000 proffessional and was able to assign a drive letter to the drive and access its contents with my drive slaved to his. D'ont know why this wont work with XP pro? > Hi, the option is there to change the drive letter but it is not highlighted > so I am unable to click on it. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >> > >> Any clues? |
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