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How do I assign a volume letter to a SCSI hard drive in Windows 7?

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HelloWorl

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I just got my internal SCSI hard drive up and running, but I just want to back up the data off of it. I connected it to a PCI SCSI adapter and it's detected in Windows, but it's not showing up with a volume letter.

Here's what Disk Management looks like: http://i.imgur.com/II6hE.png

Thoughts?




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I'm running Win 7 64 bit and I have an adaptec scsi card (29160) card:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/scsi/u160/asc-29160/

I have a SCSI hard drive that I want to install as a slave drive. I'm just backing up the data from the SCSI drive to my main SATA drive.

I downloaded the drivers here:
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/downlo...tid=asc-29160&dn=adaptec+scsi+card+29160.html

After extracting the file, it just gives me these three files:
adpu160m.cat
adpu160m.inf
ADPU160M.sys

What do I do with these now? I can't find any instructions on the website. It just says to install the driver but doesn't provide a description on how to do so.


Thanks.

Device Manager:
http://i.imgur.com/hJ50I.png
http://i.imgur.com/DGBuL.png
 
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You will need to install the driver through the device manager. Post a screenshot with all of the trees expanded.
 
I think you can just R-click on the item, select Update Driver, and "point" the driver install routine to the location of your SCSI adapter's file (ie. the .INF) using the Browse option.
 
Your device manager screenshots don't show a SCSI adapter, or any unrecognized hardware device, for the matter. Are you sure your SCSI adapter is working?
 
Midnight Rambler said:
I think you can just R-click on the item, select Update Driver, and "point" the driver install routine to the location of your SCSI adapter's file (ie. the .INF) using the Browse option.
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I assume you mean in device manager, but the device isn't even showing up there apparently..
 
I just got my internal SCSI hard drive up and running, but I just want to back up the data off of it. I connected it to a PCI SCSI adapter and it's detected in Windows, but it's not showing up with a volume letter.

Here's what Disk Management looks like: http://i.imgur.com/II6hE.png

Thoughts?
 
HelloWorl said:
http://i.imgur.com/hJ50I.png
http://i.imgur.com/DGBuL.png

Does that help?
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Huh, I don't see the SCSI drive listed at all there, but it clearly shows up in Disk Management? That's odd.

Do you happen to know what kind of system the drive came out of? Window, Mac, Linux? What you're seeing in Disk Management is typical when Windows knows that there is a partition on the drive, but it doesn't know what kind of filesystem it is.

Are you comfortable running a Linux live CD like Ubuntu? That'll let us get down and dirty and see what's really going on.
 
mfenn said:
Huh, I don't see the SCSI drive listed at all there, but it clearly shows up in Disk Management? That's odd.

Do you happen to know what kind of system the drive came out of? Window, Mac, Linux? What you're seeing in Disk Management is typical when Windows knows that there is a partition on the drive, but it doesn't know what kind of filesystem it is.

Are you comfortable running a Linux live CD like Ubuntu? That'll let us get down and dirty and see what's really going on.
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Sorry, that post is out of date. I moved the PCI card to another slot and it's detected. My issue now is at the top of the post.

I'm trying to find out about the system it came out of. My guess is that it's not Windows, which is why I'm not able to assign a drive letter.

I'm fine trying out Linux, but I'd prefer to just boot off a CD / flashdrive instead of having to create a bootable partition on my existing drives. Is there an easy way to go about that?
 
sonoma1993 said:
In disk management when right click on the scsi hard drive, what options do you see?
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I don't have it plugged in at the moment, but nothing useful. I think just Help maybe. On the drive itself it gives me properties, offline, help, and convert to dynamic disk.


99.9% sure there's nothing I can do at the moment since the filesystem isn't supported by Windows 7 :-/
 
You call it "my internal SCSI hard drive" yet you don't know how it is formatted, what is on it, or where it came from?

I can see this effort for a 100 something+ gig 10 or 15k SCSI but 8GB? If data getting loose is a concern take the lid off and smash the platters or make them into a wind chime...
 
HelloWorl said:
Sorry, that post is out of date. I moved the PCI card to another slot and it's detected. My issue now is at the top of the post.

I'm trying to find out about the system it came out of. My guess is that it's not Windows, which is why I'm not able to assign a drive letter.

I'm fine trying out Linux, but I'd prefer to just boot off a CD / flashdrive instead of having to create a bootable partition on my existing drives. Is there an easy way to go about that?
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Ubuntu Live CD or USB drive. That's just one, if it doesn't work you can try other Linux live CD's...
 
HelloWorl said:
Sorry, that post is out of date. I moved the PCI card to another slot and it's detected. My issue now is at the top of the post.

I'm trying to find out about the system it came out of. My guess is that it's not Windows, which is why I'm not able to assign a drive letter.

I'm fine trying out Linux, but I'd prefer to just boot off a CD / flashdrive instead of having to create a bootable partition on my existing drives. Is there an easy way to go about that?
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Yeah the way the live CD works is that you boot from the disc and it never touches your existing drives. As ch33zw1z mentioned, there are a lot of versions out there, but Ubuntu is pretty easy and has a lot of software readily available from the repositories.

Get it here and burn it to a disc. We can work asynchronously in the thread, but feel free to shoot me a PM if you want to chat via Gtalk or whatever.
 
Gunbuster said:
You call it "my internal SCSI hard drive" yet you don't know how it is formatted, what is on it, or where it came from?

I can see this effort for a 100 something+ gig 10 or 15k SCSI but 8GB? If data getting loose is a concern take the lid off and smash the platters or make them into a wind chime...
Click to expand...

The HD is a friend's who needs the data on it backed up.
 
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