This is a continuation of a situation outlined in a previous thread,
"[PCBUILD] FAT32 Not Present":
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> My friend, whose computer I'm "technically" responsible for has had
> recent problems booting up. Originally this thing was an eMachine
> eTower 400i, and as far as most of the guts are concerned it still
> is. I've simply moved it all into a new case after the machine kept
> shutting itself down before due to the legendary faulty power supply
> installed in most eMachine computers.
>
> So ever since moving it over I've been seeing a lot of blue screens
> saying the computer is unable to write to Drive C, in addition to
> frequent system lockups to the point that the task manager cannot
> even be brought up.
To insert a segue, we decided to simply replace the hard drive with a new
Maxtor 30.7 gig drive, which, BTW, is not yet working because I think the
motherboard is fried, too. We're replacing the motherboard, RAM and CPU
tomorrow.
I took the old 4.3 gig and stuck it in my own PC as a slave, thinking it
would be a perfect place to archive and categorize old e-mail until I'm
ready to burn them to and fill up a CD with each category of e-mail.
When I installed this drive as slave, it rudely snuggled itself right past
Drive C, moving all my other drives down a letter. This would normally be
no problem, but I have many directories and files referenced on Drive D and
now everything is out of whack. Yes, I can go through and fix this, but it
would take a lot longer than simply forcing this slave drive to be Drive J
so my master drive can continue to be drives C,D,E,F,G,H and I.
Now here's what I've tried so far. I tried going to the Control Panel |
System | Device Manager | Disk Drives | (the slave drive) | Properties |
Settings and the Reserved Drive Letters were greyed out whether Removable
was checked or unchecked. Therefore I could not change it.
I then tried going through the Registry. I went to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\ESDI\GENERIC_IDE_DISK_TYPE47_
I changed the CurrentDriveLetterAssignment on the master drive to CDEFGHI.
I changed the CurrentDriveLetterAssignment on the slave drive to J.
I rebooted.
I still found the slave drive as Drive D. :-(
Any ideas on what to try next? More info follows which may help narrow down
the solution:
Here's my AUTOEXEC.BAT
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS
C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM
SET PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\TEXTUT~1\ULTRAE~1;%PATH%
SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\PROGRA~1\NETWOR~1\PGP
And here's my CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
System Hardware/Software follows:
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System Credentials - Hardware - (Brief)
=======================================================================
Motherboard: Abit KT7A-RAID
AMD Athlon 1200 MHz
256 MB Micron PC-133 CAS-2 SDRAM
VIA 4.32 4in1 Drivers
AGP : CL 3-D Annihilator 2 Ultra (GeForce 2 Ultra) (64MB DDR-RAM)
PCI 2 : Hauppauge WinTV 404 TV Tuner/Video Capture
PCI 4 : SoundBlaster Live Platinum 5.1
PCI 6 : Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet NC100 2.1
Serial 2 : (COM2) Creative ModemBlaster 56k External
Case: Antec SX1030B (Black)
Power Supply: Antec PP-303X 300 Watts
5.25 #1 ex: Toshiba SD-R1002 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combination Drive
5.25 #4 ex: Creative Soundblaster Platinum 5.1 Live Drive II/IR
3.5 #1 ex: A:\ TEAC 3.5: Floppy Model FD-235-HF
3.5 #2 ex: B:\ Sony 3.5" Floppy Model MPF520-D (defective)
3.5 #4 in: C:\ Maxtor 30GB ATA-66 7200RPM Hard Drive Model 53076U6
3.5 #6 in: D:\ Samsung TriGem 4.3GB 5400RPM Hard Drive
=======================================================================
System Credentials - Software
=======================================================================
Internet : Earthlink
: America Online via TCP/IP Earthlink
OS : Windows 98 Second Edition
WWW Brows : Internet Explorer 5.50.4522.1800 SP-1 128-bit
E-Mail : Agent 1.8/32.548
Usenet : Agent 1.8/32.548
AOL : America Online 5.0
Media : Winamp 2.76
: Windows Media Player 6.4
: RealPlayer 8 Full Install
Chat : ICQ 4.63 beta build 3279
: AOL Instant Messenger 4.4.2286 beta
: MSN Messenger 3.6.0039
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