Local Disk

Strongwolf · #1 (**permalink**) 3rd January, 2007, 07:14 PM

In short terms, install an Ultra multipurpose front panel(4 usb,1 firewire, card readers,etc). The local disk change to H:\ (as usual it was C ) and recognize the four usb ports as HDD (C,D,E and F) the DVDrom goes to J:\(it was G). Recovery console don't work any more. It shows only C: and of course there is nothing there. Do a lot of things trying to fix it, finally disable them and uninstall them. They don't appear on "My computer" any more but need to shut down every time I reboot and a box saying "There is no drive ect.(or something like that)" with the alternatives of "cancel,retry,ignore".

This is very annoying

Any thoughts

cloasters · #2 (**permalink**) 3rd January, 2007, 07:37 PM

Mebbe the front panel isn't as Ultra as it thinks it is?

Strongwolf · #3 (**permalink**) 3rd January, 2007, 07:47 PM

Yeah..it sucks. But I will make it work, even if I have to fly you here to do it!!!

Samuknow · #4 (**permalink**) 4th January, 2007, 08:11 AM

You should be able to change the USB and other drives letter in drive management.

Strongwolf · #5 (**permalink**) 4th January, 2007, 01:41 PM

I try that , but it saids that the logical drive can not be change.

Samuknow · #6 (**permalink**) 4th January, 2007, 01:41 PM

If you remove the USB drives, does it go back ?

Strongwolf · #7 (**permalink**) 4th January, 2007, 03:16 PM

At least not with software. I may/will unplug them fisically, exepct for the fire wire, the sata and the card reader. Actually the usb are conected directlly to one of the mobo usb port with a Y.

Áedán · #8 (**permalink**) 5th January, 2007, 04:19 AM

When it comes to assigning drive letters, the general rules are:

Primary partitions are scanned first, starting with IDE.
Logical partitions are scanned second, starting with IDE.

It sounds like your hard disk does not have a primary partition, but only logical partitions?

Samuknow · #9 (**permalink**) 5th January, 2007, 05:15 AM

Didn't think of that. If he changes it to a primary in disk manager, won't it wipe his data?

Áedán · #10 (**permalink**) 5th January, 2007, 05:57 AM

Yes, if you change it from logical to primary, it'd result in data loss. Depending on disk layout, it can be less than trivial to convert logical to primary.

Samuknow · #11 (**permalink**) 5th January, 2007, 06:01 AM

I am still thinking that it should be done. Won't having your primary drive change to something else cause program problems?

Strongwolf · #12 (**permalink**) 6th January, 2007, 03:00 PM

Finally give up and take the darn thing out. Reconfigure the system and up we go. I''ll put it in my dadss rig. Thanks for the help.

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