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02-08-2003, 03:04 PM
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New Build--Win2K and WinXP question-urgent
I have booted my new build and Booted from the Win 2K pro cd-rom. Install went great. BUT....It detected both hdds in BIOS but when I installed Win 2K it only formatted the HDD-0 and not the HDD-1 harddrive. I can see the other hdd in Disk Management Console and it shows as "unknown" unformatted. I have only installed the Intel .INF and the AC97 Audio drivers from the motherboard CD-Rom. I have not installed the ATA drivers for the hdd's as yet because I expect it to only install one instance of the HPT370 controller as only one hdd is presently partitioned and formatted. Shouldn't I partition and format this other volume before putting the ATA drivers on? If so, how in the world do I do dat? I am not to swift, as yet; in the use of Win2K. Please advise.
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02-08-2003, 03:28 PM
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Right click on the unknown space on HDD-1 in Disk Mangement then select Create Partition (I think) - then you repeat and select Format.
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02-08-2003, 04:29 PM
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Well I think I have at least partially figured it out, with your help GLC. I right clicked out to the left where it had Unknown Disk 1 and the option was to "write signature" I launched that little wizard and I did not give the volume a name. When that was complete, I right clicked out into the drive info to the right and had a "format" option. I chose a primary partition and it would only let me select drive letter E and above. Looks like I will end up C:\ with Win2K, D:\ cd-rom, and this volume with E:\. Not exactly mainstream, but I guess I don't care. Anyway it is in the process of formatting./ I hope when I finish all I have to do is put my WinXP cd in and point the install to drive E:\. Wish me luck and if anyone sees any problems from my plan, let me know pdq, as I will be attempting soon as formatting is complete.
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02-08-2003, 08:19 PM
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Got XP installed on the other drive. Now I have a wierd setup for you guys to figure out. On Win 2K it is as I suspected that the C:\ is Win 2K....D:\ is cd-rom.....E:\ is fixed disk.
Now at boot loader I select WinXP and it has C:\ and D:\ as the hdd's and E:\ as the CD/DVD drive. It seems to have sorted drive letter assignments out. But the Win 2K is still as I stated above! Any suggestions as to iron this out? Could I disconnect the CD-Rom from IDE controller and then boot to Win 2K to see if the drive letters were reassigned and then boot down again...hook up CD-Rom/DVD and see if the drive letter would then be assigned as E:\ as it is now in WinXP? |
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02-08-2003, 09:45 PM
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Hope I am being clear with my question.
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02-09-2003, 02:21 AM
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You can change the drive letter assignments from Disk Management. Just be sure to leave C: alone. You should give every hard drive a volume label, some software including windows will have a problem with it at times if you don't.
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02-09-2003, 06:26 AM
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Tuf the drive letter assignments from with in Disk management only give unused options for drive letter assignments, such as in my case F, G, ect...I was hoping to get a traditional C:\ and D:\ with E:\as the CD/DVD. You don't think Win2K would automatically reassign drive letters when it boots and does not detect a CD-Rom?
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02-09-2003, 09:54 AM
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Change E: to F:
Then D: to E: then F: to D: You need to do this before you start installing anything. I think that is what you're trying to achieve. |
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02-09-2003, 12:56 PM
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Thank you pointd, I never thought of that way; to do it in three steps.
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02-09-2003, 01:00 PM
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If I installed anything, would you suggest uninstalling that before drive letter changes? Would this include drivers such as ATA 100 controllers and the ATI Radeon All-in-wonder 7500 drivers also?...EGAD, methinks I may have glimpsed purgatory!
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02-09-2003, 01:12 PM
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Drivers etc should be ok it's more for software that needs the CD to run. When you install the apps there is a reference made in the registry for the install location and the location of any extra files it may need. If the app tries to look for these files it won't find them.
It depends on how clever the app is as to whether it will then ask you to tell it the location of the files or whether it will just fall over. |
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02-09-2003, 09:18 PM
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I was able to reassign drive letters in Win2k and both OS's are playing nice! My fourth build and not many probs at all! Thanks heaps pointd!
Last edited by AlwaysUp; 02-09-2003 at 09:20 PM. |
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