Q: Gents,
I was wondering if any of you had come across a problem I have with WindowsME (although I do not think the system of specific operational), where the drive letters for my internal Zip drive and my RAID array ( strip) to keep swaping around. This is really annoying as you might guess. Has anyone else encountered this or knows someone a solution for this issue.
I have tried (unsuccessfully) to find out how to allocate drive letter in Windows works, but it seems to be at the DOS level. As this part WinME removed, does anyone know how this allocation process works?
The boxes for drive letter allocation system u003e properties are gray . I would think that this means that automatically .? Please, some help as I get where even looking for a solution.
Cheers all
Z
Best Answer: did you have any jump drives in at the time of a upgrade..i have this problem with external hard drive which six's trying to keep the drive assigned on the network..it happened after the march updates i have not been able to pin the exact problem..
Re:I recall Iomegaware having a drive letter setting option. Given, that this was some time ago, it may no longer have that option.
On Win2k or WinXP you can reassign the drive letter for any volumes, except the boot and system volumes, via the disk manager.
Re:I haven't actually got Iomegaware installed as the zip-drive was OEM and ME found it no problems. Do you think if i were to download this software and install in would possibly fix? I will give a try non-the-less…but was looking into the BIOS and i am offered no control their either…
Just for curiosity, how would i have fixed this in Win2000 or XP. If worst happens i could migriate to these OSs.
Thanks for the info.
Z
Re:I'm guessing that sometimes the Zip initializes before the RAID, and sometimes it's the other way around, so they get assigned letters in different orders. I'm really at a loss as to how to fix this in Windows ME; in Win2k or WinXP, this would be easy.
Are there any options in Iomegaware to set the drive letter for the Zip?
Re:The motherboard is K7A-RAID. I have two ATA drives attached to IDE1 as master & slave. I have a DVD & Zip100 on IDE2 and then two ATA drives in a strip RAID on the onboard HP-RAID.
The problem lies with Zip100 and ATA-RAID swapping letters e: & f:
There is no reason for them to swap like this as far as i can tell.
Z
Re:What kind of hardware to which are these things attached? What other drives do you have?
In general, I would expect Windows to assign drive letters to SCSI/RAID volumes before removables.
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