Problems instal. Win 2000 -w/SCSI and IDE HD
OCS
Hi, this problem irritates me ALOT, any solution
would be highly appriciated.
My system consists of both a SCSI and an IDE hard-drive.
The SCSI-drive is connected as drive 0, on my Adaptec
AHA-2940U2W adapter, and the IDE-drive is connected
as the primary-master-drive on the first IDE channel
of the motherboard-controller.
I am currently running Windows 98 and Windows NT4, and
I am about to replace NT with Windows 2000 in a dual boot environment.
My system is set up in the BIOS to boot from my SCSI-drive, SCSI-ID-0,
and NOT the IDE-drive.
When I installed Win98 everything went just fine, and under
Win98 my drives are mapped as follows:
C: SCSI-partition-1 (SCSI primary active boot partition)
D: IDE-partition-1 (IDE primary active boot partition)
E: SCSI-partition-2
F: SCSI-partition-3
G: SCSI-partition-4
H: IDE-partition-2
I: IDE-partition-3
J: IDE-partition-4
K: SCSI-CD-ROM-1
L: SCSI-CD-ROM-2
M: SCSI-CD-ROM-3
When I installed Windows NT4 I discovered that NT assumes that the
IDE-drive is the first drive in my system (the C-drive),
(and the E, F and G drive), and the SCSI-drive gets the
letters D, H, I and J, and then comes the CD-ROM units as
respectively K, L, M.
#1: First, Why does this happend ?? Why does Windows NT (and Win200) ignore
the
BIOS settings on the motherboard that tells the system that the SCSI-drives
are to
be prefferd before the IDE-drives ?????
Now, I wanted NT to assign my drives (partitions) the same drive-letters
as in Win98. Under NT I solved this problem by reassigning the drive
letters with the NT-Disk-Manager, so that I got the same drive-letters
as under my Win98 system. This worked, tough it still irritated me that
NT didn't arrange the hardware automatically the same way as win 98 did.....
When installing Win2000, the same problem as with Win NT occured.
And now, there is NO disk-manager to rearrange the drive letters !!???
So when Windows 2000 was installed my drives were named as follow :
C: IDE-partition-1 (IDE primary active boot partition)
D: SCSI-partition-1 (SCSI primary active boot partition)
E: IDE-partition-2
F: IDE-partition-3
G: IDE-partition-4
H: SCSI-partition-2
I: SCSI-partition-3
J: SCSI-partition-4
K: SCSI-CD-ROM-1
L: SCSI-CD-ROM-2
M: SCSI-CD-ROM-3
And, this IRRITATES me ALOT !! Since, if I want to install a program that
I want to run under both Win98 and Win2000 and I want to avoid installing
the
program on two different locations thus doubling the space used for that
program,
eg. on the Win98 SCSI - G-drive, this will not work since the G-drive under
Win2000
is another drive (IDE drive) !!!
OK, I disconnected the IDE-drive from the system and installed Win2000,
now Win2000 gave my SCSI-drive the C-drive-letter. But, after reconnecting
the IDE-drive, the IDE-drive was given letters after all the
SCSI-drive-partitions
and even after the SCSI-CD-Roms !! So the system looked like this :
C: SCSI-partition-1 (SCSI primary active boot partition)
D: SCSI-partition-2
E: SCSI-partition-3
F: SCSI-partition-4
G: SCSI-CD-ROM-1
H: SCSI-CD-ROM-2
I: SCSI-CD-ROM-3
J: IDE-partition-1 (IDE primary active boot partition)
K: IDE-partition-2
L: IDE-partition-3
M: IDE-partition-4
HHmm, I dont understand a thing here !!!
Why doesn't Win2000 arrange the drives as Win98 does ?? And why
isn't there a disk-manager included with win2000
so that I can fix this mess !!???
I hava also tried disabling the PnP OS - option on the motherboards
BIOS (Asus P2B w latest Bios 1011). I have also tried making the
first partiton on the IDE drive "inactive" and not bootable, but
no luck here !!!
Since I want to get Win2000 up and running ASAP, any answers would
be VERY MUCH appriciated !!! :)
1. Anybody know why NT / Win200 behaves differently
from Win98 in this issue ??
2. Anybody have a solution to this problem ??
3. Anybody know where to find a disk-manager-utility to
rearrange my drive letters in Win2000 ?
Answers can be posted on the newsgroup and or e-mailed
me on : mes...@online.no
THANK YOU
Ole Christian Salomonsen
max
management
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