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SATA and win2K

  • 22-02-2005 11:05am
    #1
    DoesNotCompute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭


    So I've installed a 250GB SATA hard drive, and windows installs it as a SCSI ATA drive in device manager. However, there's no drive letter associated with the drive. Why doesn't windows use a drive letter to allow me to access the device? How am I supposed to use the drive if I can't get access to it?


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  • #2
    Morgoth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭Morgoth


    I don't think it shows up if it's unpartitioned. Go to Control Panel -> Adminstrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management. Create a partition from there. Then it'll give it a drive letter and it'll show up in windows and you can format it.


  • #3
    DoesNotCompute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭DoesNotCompute


    I was thinking that might be the problem. The other thing is that I'm looking to create two partitions from the drive: a partition for knoppix, and a partition for storing files in FAT32 (lunix doesn't write to NTFS file system properly, allegedly). If I create the FAT32 partition first in windows, should I be able to partition the rest of the drive in Knoppix? Or should I make the knoppix partition first?


  • #4
    uberpixie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭uberpixie


    DoesNotCompute wrote:
    I was thinking that might be the problem. The other thing is that I'm looking to create two partitions from the drive: a partition for knoppix, and a partition for storing files in FAT32 (lunix doesn't write to NTFS file system properly, allegedly). If I create the FAT32 partition first in windows, should I be able to partition the rest of the drive in Knoppix? Or should I make the knoppix partition first?

    have a look here:
    http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/knowing-knoppix/main/index21.html

    Quick faq on swap files for knoppix


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