Question

Assign drive letter to IDE HDD in SCSI system at boot time ?

Asked by: Kajetan

I installed an IDE HDD into a SCSI NT 4.0 system. Starting the atapi device driver at boot time, but alas I don't know how to assign drive letters to it's partitions.

With the harddisk manager I can manually assign drive letters, but I want to get the job done automagically at boot time!

Can anyone please point me to the equivalent of a unix fstab?

TNX

Kajetan

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2001-04-26 at 14:38:46ID20110356
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Windows NT Operating System

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Answers

 

by: tonnybrandtPosted on 2001-04-27 at 13:39:37ID: 6037113

You are on the right track. The diskmanager is the thing to use and the driveletter you provide will survive a reboot.

 

by: adept1Posted on 2001-04-28 at 16:08:41ID: 6038444

Go to:

Start Menu->Programs->Administrative Tools->Disk Administrator

Assuming you configured the hardware correctly you will see the drive here. If it's already partitioned, you can right click on the partition and choose "Assign Drive Letter".

 

by: tonnybrandtPosted on 2001-04-30 at 22:46:24ID: 6041890

adept1: Isn't that what i just told him in my comment ?. So why proposing an answer ?.

Please read the guidelines on the bottom of the page about comment/answers.

 

by: KajetanPosted on 2001-05-02 at 02:33:08ID: 6045628

You both seem right but alas it doesn't work. I wrote:

>With the harddisk manager I can manually assign drive >letters, but I want to get the job done automagically
>at boot time!

Sorry, maybe I had got the translation wrong with 'harddisk manager' I meant what tonnybrandt called 'diskmanager' and adept1 called 'Disk Administrator'. I guess we all are using 'Windisk.exe', which is linked to ->Start Menu->Programs->Administrative Tools (or my german equiv).


But no matter if I use it as domain admin or local admin, I can map new partitions to any free drive letters but after boot these adjustments are no more available.

So this machine has c: d: e: f: g: (all on SCSI) and after I used 'Windisk.exe' I can also use k: l: m:. When the machine is rebooted I only have c: d: e: f: g: (all on SCSI) but none of the assigned IDE letters. So I have to use 'Windisk.exe' again, assign the drive letters. Then I have the IDE drives again until I reboot. Nothing of my changes survives the reboot ...

Any ideas?

Kajetan

 

by: adept1Posted on 2001-05-02 at 08:22:26ID: 6046410

Tony:

I thought your answer was vague and used incorrect terminology, and that's why I proposed an a concise answer that included the exact steps to follow.

 

by: ismartPosted on 2001-05-08 at 09:35:19ID: 6059816

Do you choose to Commit Changes before you leave Disk Administrator?

 

by: KajetanPosted on 2001-05-08 at 14:47:51ID: 6060930

ismart>Do you choose to Commit Changes before you leave Disk Administrator?

Yes. And everything works fine until I reboot ...

Next time I reboot I'll export and compare the registry before and after changes ...

TNX

Kajetan

 

by: hundhammPosted on 2003-11-12 at 14:48:33ID: 9735485

tonnybrandt: theoretically right, but it didn't work

adept1: theoretically right, but it didn't work

ismart: there is no "commit changes"


Everything was fully functionally after using windisk.exe (NT), but was gone after reboot. Sorry, I don't know why, maybe spontanious windisk.exe bit degray ...

Finally I removed the IDE device and attached and SCSI raid array.

No solution (probably M$ fault), never happend to me again, neither in NT or W2K or XP.

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