You are correct. SATA figures all that out itself. As for XP, try: Administrative Tools Computer Management Storage Disk management Right click on one of the hard drives (note some times the Windows Context menu key may not work, you will have to route your WE Mouse cursor to the drive and use the right click function on the numeric keypad.) Arrow down to change drive letters and paths. Hopefully this will help. Vic
________________________________ From: donald E. Bowen, Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:42 AM To: Pereira, Vic: CIO-BI (PNR-RPN) Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: drive letter assignments hosed in XP SATA drives and I do believe the shunts are on CS for both drives. My vd (vision dependent(tech tells me SATA does not require the drive be jumped master and slave. A technique I grew up with, as it sounds you have too. I'd give anything if I could just poke my head in the CMOS office but hey, if I could I wouldn't be on this great list and in this generous community. .db ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: drive letter assignments hosed in XP The problem may be with your jumper settings on the drives themselves. Of course I don't know if you are using IDE or SATA. Let's assume IDE. Chances are that the jumpers are on CS (cable select). You can set one to master and the other to slave. This will force your drives to come up as C: and D: on channel 0. Vic ________________________________ From: donald E. Bowen, Jr. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: drive letter assignments hosed in XP In order to get Window eyes 7.2 properly re installed on my BSN (brand spanking new)hard drive, a WD 15ears, replacing the Seagate that came up toast last week. I have the drive installed and WinXP SP3 installed, all hardware installed, including that ever so useful sound card I install WE. Perfect. Ready to move on. Which includes adding a second internal hd to serve as internal backup device. So I shut down, install the other drive in the box. The drive is already formatted and contains a few backup files I'm looking forward to restoring to the new drive. Windows comes back fine. Only a quick check of Explorer shows the old backup drive I just installed is now drive C: and the new WD 15ears which contains the boot record or system files, Windows XP SP3 and all the software that has been installed up to now, including Window Eyes, , is now drive L: I can not change the drive letter assignments back in the Control Panel Admin Tools computer Management disc Management change the drive letters because of their being boot volumes. Window eyes is now running sluggishly and I hesitate to move forward with system restoration before this drive letter assignment issue is resolved. I believe the solution lies in CMOS settings where boot sequences of devices is established. As in, tell the system which volume serial number to consider the first drive. Of course there is the challenge of the CMOS settings with a screen reader... grin... My tech who did the part of the job where vision is mandatory feels Partition Magic is the solution. I think CMOS holds the key. Help! Sincerely, Donald E. Bowen, Jr. <http://mysite.verizon.net/reszmkrl/musicforsight/author.html> Music for Sight <http://musicforsight.org/> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5397 (20100825) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5397 (20100825) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5397 (20100825) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
