Re: "Slave" drive not recognized on New XP install

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 11:59:54 -0600

IDE hard drive are NOT hot plug devices, so you might fry
some hardware.

To check the BIOS, you should check to see that
auto-detection is enabled and this needs to be done before
Windows boots. 

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"Patrick" <Patrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
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| Unplug the slave drive
| start windows
| Plug in slave drive
| Check its configured correctly in bios
| Windows will almost certainly note a new bit of hardware 
and give it a letter
| You an then change it to D if you wish in management
|
| If this does not work and it should try putting slave 
drive in another machine
|
|
|
|
| "Test User" wrote:
|
| > "Joe" <jgbsysNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
| > news:%239$AgoL3EHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| > > My old Hard Drive crashed and I replaced it with a 
120Gig and at the same
| > > time switched from W2K to XP Pro.
| > >
| > > The problem is that I had the files from the old 
drive - about 30 Gig
| > > worth - saved to the old slave HD but XP won't 
recognize and "Letter" the
| > > "Slave" until it's reformated which means that I'd 
lose all the files,
| > which
| > > something I can't have happen.
| > >
| > > There has to be a way around this and if anyone can 
help I'd be very
| > > grateful.
| > >
| > > Thanks,
| > >
| > > Joe
| >
| > You can probably use diskpart and the ASSIGN command to 
do this.
| >
| > HTH
| > -pk
| >
| >
| >

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