nsr81
01-17-2002, 12:29 AM
I had IBM DTTA 16.8Gig hard drive for a while and that's also the first drive to get the magic touch of XP including all betas on any of my computers.
About three weeks ago, I decided that I need more room and bought a nice 80Gig Seagate Barracude ATA100 drive. After installing XP on it I had some weird drive letter assignment.
My Previous config with IBM DTTA:
A: Floppy
C: IBM, Primary Master, primary partition
D: IBM, Primary Master, logical partition
E: DVD-ROM, Primary Slave
F: CDR, Secondary Master.
I just took the IBM drive out. But didn't place the new drive in the same place (primary master), since Asus Motherboards have two separate slots for ATA/100 drives.
Here is my config now:
A: Floppy
C: Seagate, ATA/100, primary partition (not on regular IDE channel)
D: DVD-ROM, primary slave (no primary master present)
E: CDR, secondary master
F: Seagate, ATA/100, logical partition 1
G: Seagate, ATA/100, logical partiton 2
H: Seagete , ATA/100, logical partition 3
Also I've the following screen capture for you to look at:
http://testarea.ny-tech.net/atablues.gif
My question: Why are my removable drive stuck in the middle? If and how can I move them to the end of the list?
It's not too important but hell of a lot annoying, plus I had to move Apache, PHP, MyQL to the C: partition becuase of this.
P.S. Using [ IMG] tag doesn't show the image, just a link to it.
About three weeks ago, I decided that I need more room and bought a nice 80Gig Seagate Barracude ATA100 drive. After installing XP on it I had some weird drive letter assignment.
My Previous config with IBM DTTA:
A: Floppy
C: IBM, Primary Master, primary partition
D: IBM, Primary Master, logical partition
E: DVD-ROM, Primary Slave
F: CDR, Secondary Master.
I just took the IBM drive out. But didn't place the new drive in the same place (primary master), since Asus Motherboards have two separate slots for ATA/100 drives.
Here is my config now:
A: Floppy
C: Seagate, ATA/100, primary partition (not on regular IDE channel)
D: DVD-ROM, primary slave (no primary master present)
E: CDR, secondary master
F: Seagate, ATA/100, logical partition 1
G: Seagate, ATA/100, logical partiton 2
H: Seagete , ATA/100, logical partition 3
Also I've the following screen capture for you to look at:
http://testarea.ny-tech.net/atablues.gif
My question: Why are my removable drive stuck in the middle? If and how can I move them to the end of the list?
It's not too important but hell of a lot annoying, plus I had to move Apache, PHP, MyQL to the C: partition becuase of this.
P.S. Using [ IMG] tag doesn't show the image, just a link to it.