PaulSinclair
12-18-1999, 06:31 AM
Built a new PC with 2 HDs, a maxtor 20gb (2 partitions) and a seagate 3gb (1 primary partition). Problem is in setting up the 3gb drive as removable - I repartitioned and reformated and it came up fine in Windows (98v2), so I've just set it to removable in system.cpl...restarted...and...
Before setting to removable, 20gb shows up as drives C+E and 3gb shows up as drive D. System.cpl reports 2 HDs. All A-OK.
After setting to removable and restarting, 20gb still shows up as drives C+E and 3gb shows up as drive D with **2** identical entries in Windows Explorer. Confused? I was! Looked at system.cpl and it still reports just the 2 drives correctly as before, but won't let me change the drive letter on the removable drive as it should.
Tried deleting the removable drive in system.cpl (never hurts!) and one of the drives vanished out of win explorer, the other was still there, reported as drive D. Could still access it without error. Rebooted and we're back to having 2 copies of the 2nd drive in Win Explorer, and still can't assign a letter to the removable drive. Unclick "removable" and it's back to 1 copy showing in Explorer.
What's the heck's going on? Any ideas?
Sys info:
P3-500, Abit BE6-II, clean install WIn98-2, system fully working, no application s/w other than Norton/Sandra, no obvious corrupts or problems elsewhere. 20gb drive is partitioned into 2 parts, 9.5gb (primary, boot disk) +10gb (extended/logical) and plugged into onboard UDMA/66. 3gb drive is partitioned as one primary partition and set up as secondary master on UDMA/33 in an HD caddy tray.
Thanks anyone who can explain what this means!
Before setting to removable, 20gb shows up as drives C+E and 3gb shows up as drive D. System.cpl reports 2 HDs. All A-OK.
After setting to removable and restarting, 20gb still shows up as drives C+E and 3gb shows up as drive D with **2** identical entries in Windows Explorer. Confused? I was! Looked at system.cpl and it still reports just the 2 drives correctly as before, but won't let me change the drive letter on the removable drive as it should.
Tried deleting the removable drive in system.cpl (never hurts!) and one of the drives vanished out of win explorer, the other was still there, reported as drive D. Could still access it without error. Rebooted and we're back to having 2 copies of the 2nd drive in Win Explorer, and still can't assign a letter to the removable drive. Unclick "removable" and it's back to 1 copy showing in Explorer.
What's the heck's going on? Any ideas?
Sys info:
P3-500, Abit BE6-II, clean install WIn98-2, system fully working, no application s/w other than Norton/Sandra, no obvious corrupts or problems elsewhere. 20gb drive is partitioned into 2 parts, 9.5gb (primary, boot disk) +10gb (extended/logical) and plugged into onboard UDMA/66. 3gb drive is partitioned as one primary partition and set up as secondary master on UDMA/33 in an HD caddy tray.
Thanks anyone who can explain what this means!