Crap, inability to assign drive letter to my drive!

[zerogear]

I just grabbed a Quantun Fireball Plus LM 30, I can't seem to assign a drive letter to it. I've tried the registry, which it just revert back to the way it was, the Device Manager, which won't let me change drive letters unless I check the drive as a removeable drive. Otherwise the choice is grayed out. I'm currently trying to assign this drive as drive E: but right now, it has NO drive letter. Anyone who can solve this dilemma? -- Thanks


Zero Gear

Edit: My Windows is currently Windows98 (Not SE)

 

[Slapstick]

You can't assign a drive letter to a non-removable drive. It will show up either at the end of the drive letter chain if you made the drive an extended DOS partician or as d:\ if you made it a primary DOS partician,(never could spell this word) when you fdisked. You can only assign drive letters to removable drive in Windows.

 

[resinboy]

I'm assuming you have added this as a 2nd hard drive? Did you go into the bios and have it recognized?

 

[SUOrangeman]

It is safe to assume that you've partitioned and formatted the new drive, right?

-SUO

 

[zerogear]

I can't format it since it's not showing on the Explorer and/or DOS. Since that's happening, it has NO drive lettering. (ie, D, E, F.. etc) -- Let me grab a Screen Shot..

Don't mind the different language -- but no drive lettering is assigned.
Screen Shot (JPG)

 

[zerogear]

I tried also editing at the registry, doesn't work either

 

[GregMal]

First make sure your BIOS recognizes the 2nd harddrive at startup. Then boot your machine with the Win9* startup disk. Use the Fdisk command. It should show your c: drive. Setup your 2nd harddrive as a non-primary extended partition. Exit from Fdisk. Format d: ........Greg

 

[SUOrangeman]

I could be wrong, but I don't think that the drive is partitioned. You MUST partition the drive from DOS (fdisk) or with some tool like PartitionMagic. Only then will you be able to format the partitions on the drive. Then, the partitions on the drive will get lettered.

-SUO

 

[thorin]

Have you BIOS auto detect HDs at startup (or set it manually), then restart in MS DOS mode and do a fdisk and create a partition (or as manya s you like) on the drive, then format it. Now you can see it in DOS and Windows and give it any drive letter you like.

Thorin

 

[KarlHungus]

As long as the BIOS detects the drive you should be able to run fdisk from a MSDOS window. I didn't need to use a bootable floppy when installing my 30 gig IBM 75GXP.

 

[zerogear]

Finally got it to work (the drive was partitioned), but there was some conflicts, I got it resolved by editing the registry again. Thanks everyone for your help.

 

[dszd0g]

zerogear, what registry key was affecting that? I have not heard of anyone having to edit the registry for Windows to see a drive before.

 

[Warrenton]

Ive never not had a drive show up so.....