At 03:45 PM 4/25/01, Jim Hills wrote:
>I am working on a HP Vectra XU 5/90C computer with two
>1 gb hard drives and a Toshiba CD-ROM all on an AMD SCSI
>controller and the BIOS is assigned the following to that controller.
>
>SCSI ID VENDOR PRODUCT CAPACITY INT13H
> 2 HP 1.05 GB #A2 1001MB
>80h
> 4 Toshiba CD-ROM XM-3601TA N/A N/A
> 6 Quantum FIREBALL1080S 1042MB 81h
>
>When I go Explorer I find the first disk assigned to "C:".
>I have reassigned the CD-ROM from "D:" to "E:".
>I have been unable to assign the FIREBALL a device letter.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I need to do to get access
>to the
>second hard disk HP has no help for this system.
>
>The system was donated to local elementary school for use by students
>and
>I am assisting in the maintenance and installs.
Based on your information, I believe one of two things is occurring:
1) The hard drive has failed and is still supplying just enough information
so the bios can acknowledge it is in the system.
2) The hard drive does not have a partition. Windows will not "see" the
drive without a partition.
Bob Wright
The NOSPIN Group
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