Re: Need to change disk number

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Can you change it to HD-CD-Floppy?
Is your scsi card the type that has its own bootable bios?

"RGold" <RGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The reason I want to re assign drive number is boot issues. When I set
boot
order:

1. cd-rom 2. HDD 3. floppy I get the hal.dll error since in this
sequence
BIOS thinks that the system disk on number 1.

I have a very limited BIOS options on my Gigabyte motherboard (GA-K8U-939)
that causes a lot of issues when using a SCSI card.

Appreciate your help.


"Bill Blanton" wrote:

That won't change the HDD enumeration order. Partitions and
the file system used doesn't have anything to do with it.


"Squire" <jerrym526@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can start over, if you have a retail copy of XP.
Remove all the disks except IDE Hard Disk O. (master)
Boot with your XP CD and delete all partitions.
Create new partitions and format using NTFS.
Install XP.
Shut down.
Install second IDE Hard Disk 1. (slave)
(leave the XP CD installed and Reboot, delete partitions.)
Create partitions and format disk 1 using NTFS.
Shut down and install one Scsi drive, (master)
(leave the XP CD installed, Reboot and delete partitions).
Create partitions and format using NTFS.
Shut down and install last Scsi drive (slave) using same method.

"RGold" <RGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have 4 hard disks in my system 2 are running from motherboard IDE
and the
other two are running from an add on SCSI PCI card.

Windows XP assigned drive numbers to the drives as follow:

DISK 0 - SCSI
DISK 1 - SCSI
DISK2 - IDE
DISK3 - IDE

I want IDE disks to be 0 and 1 and SCSI 2 and 3.

How do I change that?






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