Re: One drive shows up with two drive letters
- From: "philb" <pburtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Dec 2006 10:08:54 -0800
XP only. a USB port thumbdrive gets popped in & out as needed. Has no
effect either way.
Pretty much as simple as it gets; just a plain old XP on a plain old
Dell box. Nothing the slightest funny until the third drive showed up
as two drive letters....
Gerry Cornell wrote:
What operating system or systems are present?
Any removable disks or storage?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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"philb" <pburtis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have one serial drive in my system as C:. I have a second drive on
the first IDE port that dhows up as D:. I have a CR and DVD both on
the second IDE port that show up as E: and F:. So far so good.
I decided to add a third hard drive. I put it in as the slave on the
first IDE port (set the existing to master). The BIOS see it just
fine.
Initially, once Windows saw it, it was called G: I was able to set it
up and start using it just fine.
But something changed - i don't know what. Now, it gets seen as both
G: and H:. When the box boots, it tries to run chkdsk on both. (i can
either esc it out or let it go, no matter).
When XP then gets going and i open Explorer, I see both drives. If you
paste a file onto one, it will show up on the other. if you delete
from one, it deletes on the other. I have tried changing the drive
letter to say Z:, which it let's me do, but it still shows and uses
both.
I first thought this wa the weirdest thing and assumed it was just a
unique XP glitch of some sort. But then i did the same thing on
another similar (but different) box, and it works the same way now - i
get the one new 200GB drive to show up as two letters.
If you just ignor the second assignment, everything seems fine (except
for the chkdsk at boot), but it makes me nervous.
If i pull power off the drive (or disable in BIOS), then when XP comes
up both letters are unused as you'd expect. Plug it back in, both
letters come back.
Looking for suggestions or ideas - anyone else ever seen this? Does
anyone run XP with 3 HDs?
TIA
philb.
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