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Hi,
My P4S5A/DX motherboard has 2 IDE cables (and a 3rd floppy connector)
Cable 1:
Master - 40 gig hard disk (ST340016A)
Slave - CD burner
Cable 2:
Master - 250 gig hard disk (WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0)
Slave - DVD player
My BIOS correctly sees both hard drives (though it labels the big drive
as 131 Gig). Windows XP (with service pack 2)'s Device manager sees the
two different hard disks under Disk drives. Secondary IDE channel sees
it too. In fact, I can select Properties... hardware for any of the
drives and it correctly lists my 5 drives including the 250gig one.
Looking at the 250gig hard disk's properties, we have:
Disk: Disk 1
Type: Basic
Status: Online
Partition Style: MBR
Capacity: 238473 MB
But 'My Computer' contains only the 40 gig hard disk as C: (plus the two
optical drives as D and E). It doesn't mount the 250 gig hard disk at
all (I want it to be D.
How do I get WinXP to mount this disk as D:?
Hi,
My P4S5A/DX motherboard has 2 IDE cables (and a 3rd floppy connector)
Cable 1:
Master - 40 gig hard disk (ST340016A)
Slave - CD burner
Cable 2:
Master - 250 gig hard disk (WDC WD2500JB-00GVA0)
Slave - DVD player
My BIOS correctly sees both hard drives (though it labels the big drive
as 131 Gig). Windows XP (with service pack 2)'s Device manager sees the
two different hard disks under Disk drives. Secondary IDE channel sees
it too. In fact, I can select Properties... hardware for any of the
drives and it correctly lists my 5 drives including the 250gig one.
Looking at the 250gig hard disk's properties, we have:
Disk: Disk 1
Type: Basic
Status: Online
Partition Style: MBR
Capacity: 238473 MB
But 'My Computer' contains only the 40 gig hard disk as C: (plus the two
optical drives as D and E). It doesn't mount the 250 gig hard disk at
all (I want it to be D.
How do I get WinXP to mount this disk as D:?