SATA drives Master/slave
Discussion
After my crash last week I'm starting with a new HDD, when I have finished loading windows and most of my software I would like to connect the old drive to access e-mails and other data.
Is there a setting for master and slave on these drives as I can't find one? if not are you able to simply connect the old drives as before and access the files?
Also when I have put XP pro on the new drive it has my main HDDD as "I" and the removable drives as C: D: E; F;? how do I get my main drive back to C: (renaming it leaves "I" in brackets!
Cheers
Nick
Is there a setting for master and slave on these drives as I can't find one? if not are you able to simply connect the old drives as before and access the files?
Also when I have put XP pro on the new drive it has my main HDDD as "I" and the removable drives as C: D: E; F;? how do I get my main drive back to C: (renaming it leaves "I" in brackets!
Cheers
Nick
As far as the changing "I" to "C" I'm not sure if you can - where are you booting from? I assume that the first thing it will find it will call "C".
I have renamed all my drives, which is no problem, but it still comes up in a particular order, with "Devices with Removeable Storage" including the optical drives. An external HDD gets renamed (something like the range "Q" to "T" although it was "C" to "G" in the previous configuration) although it is recognised as a HDD.
BTW how many SATA slaves can you normally have?
Thinking about getting more storage meself......
I have renamed all my drives, which is no problem, but it still comes up in a particular order, with "Devices with Removeable Storage" including the optical drives. An external HDD gets renamed (something like the range "Q" to "T" although it was "C" to "G" in the previous configuration) although it is recognised as a HDD.
BTW how many SATA slaves can you normally have?
Thinking about getting more storage meself......SATA drives do not have master/slave settings, as there is only one SATA device allowed per channel; hence one drive per cable, unlike PATA where you could attach two.
If you want to change the drive letter assignment in XP Pro, you need to use the "Computer Management" administrative tool. There is a detailed explanation here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en
HTH
[k]
[edited to add]
The maximum limit of SATA drives is the number of SATA ports on your motherboard; hence for my Asus A8n SLI Premium, I can run up to eight as it has two 4-port controllers. However, if absolute performance is not an issue (eg for archiving), you could use USB2 external drives instead as you can daisy-chain up to 128 USB devices IIRC.
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>> Edited by [k]ar| on Tuesday 3rd January 12:40
If you want to change the drive letter assignment in XP Pro, you need to use the "Computer Management" administrative tool. There is a detailed explanation here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en
HTH
[k]
[edited to add]
The maximum limit of SATA drives is the number of SATA ports on your motherboard; hence for my Asus A8n SLI Premium, I can run up to eight as it has two 4-port controllers. However, if absolute performance is not an issue (eg for archiving), you could use USB2 external drives instead as you can daisy-chain up to 128 USB devices IIRC.
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>> Edited by [k]ar| on Tuesday 3rd January 12:40
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