[pchelpers] Re: strange thing happened
- From: "Ed" <edwest@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 12:13:41 -0500
How are the drives (IDE channel/Master - Slave) configured?
Some ideas from friends:
If the Maxtor w/the 5gig C: drive is IDE 1 Master drive - primary drive
partition
and your Fujitsu HD was the D: - IDE 1 Slave - primary drive partition
and the 35 gig partition would have been your E: - remaining space on the
IDE Master - secondary or extended partition.
CD-RW IDE 2 Master
CR-ROM IDE 2 Slave
It is easy to assume that if you partition your IDE 1 Master drive that it
will be the C and D drives, but it has been my experience that this is only
the case when you have no slave HD on the same IDE channel. If both HDs are
on the same channel the drive letters get mixed.
If the Fujitsu HD failed and could not be read by the OS then the 35 gig
partition of the master drive would then assume the D: logical drive
designation and the cd-rom and cd-rw drive letters would also move up one.
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