Re: Additional hard drive takes disk 0 position

Thanks Richard.

They are attached to the 2 IDE channels, prim and sec, on the motherboard. I
am using the default windows ide drivers. So drivers is not the cause.

And I know it does not affect windows, but I am a perfectionist. And seeing
it this way drives me crazy! Why would windows just make up its own mind
instead of using the using proper config that the bios shows?

Is there any way to tell windows that x disk is drive 1 and x disk is drive
0? perhaps through the registry?

Chris
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"Richard Urban" wrote:

Are all the drives connected to on-board IDE channels, or are some connected
to an add-in IDE expander card? If so, this will cause some drive position
anomalies.

Also, on my main computer, as soon as I install the Asus M/B IDE drivers -
the drive positions change, as opposed to the drivers supplied with Windows
XP. This does NOT prevent the operating system from functioning in any way
at all. The different drivers just look at the connected drives from a
different viewpoint.


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"Chris Austin" <ChrisAustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sorry.

60GB Prim IDE master
1st 200GB Prim IDE slave

DVDR Sec IDE Master
2nd 200GB Sec IDE Slave

I say they are jumpered properly because the BIOS IDE configuration shows
them in the EXACT order as listed above. But when widows boots the 60 GB
becomes the Drive 1 and the 1st 200 becomes drive 0.

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"Richard Urban" wrote:

You say the drives are jumpered correctly, yet you don't say exactly
"how"
they are jumpered - or connected to the IDE channels. Obviously,
something
is "incorrect"!!

Without proper information it is difficult to make a diagnosis.

How are they jumpered?

Which IDE channel is each connected to?

Are you using cable select or setting the drives as master/slave.

Give us enough information to work with.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"Chris Austin" <ChrisAustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

I have 2 boxes. 1 was using 2-200 gb hard drives as c and d. I built a
new
system where I now have a 1-60 GB drive as my xp system drive. I
removed
the
200's from my other box and placed them in the new one. Although the
drives
are jumpered properly(the bios sees them in the correct order) WinXP
boots
with one of the additional 200's as drive 0; 60 is drive 1 and the
other
200
is drive 2. I have already booted from the Western Digital Diagnostics
floppy
and performed the Full 'write zero's to the drive' procedure on both
200's.
It still however boots with the 1st 200 in drive 0 position.

Why is this happening? How do I get the 60 gb to show as drive 0 and
the
demote the 200 to the drive 1 position?

Thanks,

Chris

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Windows XP Pro
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