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so i have a drive from an my old desktop that i used stickly to store media on (seagate barracuda 7200 160gig), somehow the drive letter got changed to C: and the windows boot HDD was changed to G: or something. now i'm trying to access the media on the seagate but i can't because i will then have two drives labelled C:!! can i change the drive letter before windows boots or can i access the drive some other way?? i also have a linux machine if that helps.
any suggestions are much appreciated.
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hard drive labelled C: but it's not the windows install drive
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Posted 31 October 2007 - 08:39 PM
dawg3tt said:
so i have a drive from an my old desktop that i used stickly to store media on (seagate barracuda 7200 160gig), somehow the drive letter got changed to C: and the windows boot HDD was changed to G: or something. now i'm trying to access the media on the seagate but i can't because i will then have two drives labelled C:!! can i change the drive letter before windows boots or can i access the drive some other way?? i also have a linux machine if that helps.
any suggestions are much appreciated.
any suggestions are much appreciated.
It might help if you elaborate a little more on your setup. How are the drives attached? SATA? IDE? If IDE, are they both on the same IDE channel? Which one if slave and which is master? What other drives are on the system (i.e. optical drives, card readers, external drives, etc)? How long have you noticed this change? Do you recall doing anything around the time that you noticed the change? If you take the Seagate drive out, does the main drive revert back to the C: drive? Have you tried changing the drive letters in the Device Manager under the Disk Management section?
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 05:51 PM
ya, sorry. my current windows install hdd is sata and is labelled C: and always has been. when i plug in the seagate (ide with no other drive on the cable). the problem is that both drives are now labelled as C:. the pc won't boot when both are plugged in. i just need a way to mask, change or bypass the letter on the seagate.
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Posted 01 November 2007 - 07:43 PM
dawg3tt said:
ya, sorry. my current windows install hdd is sata and is labelled C: and always has been. when i plug in the seagate (ide with no other drive on the cable). the problem is that both drives are now labelled as C:. the pc won't boot when both are plugged in. i just need a way to mask, change or bypass the letter on the seagate.
It likely will not matter, but are you installing the IDE drive as a slave drive or master drive. If it is set as master, I would try switching to slave and see if it helps. I am guess not, but it does not hurt to try.
The next option would be to get an external enclosure for IDE drives. Then you could not have the drive installed in the computer and boot up the computer with the SATA drive and then plug in the USB cable for the external drive enclosure with the IDE drive and it should mount fine.
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