I have this wired problem.
I had a HD that was c:. I conected another HD and put as slave and the letter were reversed so that the primary was D: and the Secoundery was c:.

When i removed the secoundery , the primary remeined D:. I tried all that i can and know to fix this and couldnt. In the Bios he see it as master on the first slot and in Fdisk there are no logical drives or what ever that can cause this . so if anyone has any idea whats wrong and how to fix it , i would realy apritiate it .

What version of Windows?

When you say "the primary" and "the secondary," is that what you are calling them because that's how you think of them? Or are you calling them that because of the IDE channel that they're on?

When you say "the letter were reversed," is this something that happened automatically or did you make a manual change?

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The DOS-based Windows Win9X/ME assign drive letters differently from the NT-based Windows Win2K/XP - so the first thing to know is which Windows.

Also check the jumpers and report back - things might be least confusing if both are on the same channel and using the Cable Select setting for BOTH drives. Otherwise ensure that the Master/Slave settings are correct.

Finally check the boot order in the bios.

If both drives have an active partition then the most usual arrangement is for C to go to the master and D to go to the first active partition on the slave. The drive letters are assigned dysnamically by DOS-based OSes so there is nothing one can do (within the Operating System) to change the order. The drive letters can mostly be changed/customised if using a NT-based OS.

Finally is there a bootable OS on both drives?

tahnks for the replies guys . ok , its like that , i did everything i could , i used cable select and it still didnt work , and i used jumpering for primary and secoundery and it still didnt worked , we are talkin here NT based system , 2 be more exact win2k.

The thing is that im no newbie and thats the first time something like that happens 2 me .

both of the HDS had 2000 boot on and now i dont have the 2nd hd. the only hd instaled have 2k and it still shown as D . so if any one has an idea what can i do inside or outside the 2k please help.

Originally posted by veloks
we are talkin here NT based system , 2 be more exact win2k.

what can i do inside or outside the 2k

Windows cannot modify the drive letters of system or boot volumes.

Either has to a BIOS setting or you are setting up the drives incorrectly.

This is what I would do if you haven't already tried.

Put both drives as cable select. Using a 80-conductor cable, attach the blue end to the motherboard . Connect the primary drive to the the black end and the secondary drive to the gray connection.

If that doesn't work, then check the BIOS very carefully.

I already did that and besides i dont have the other drive any more . I only have one drive that is being set as D:.
Mayb if ill do a Bios reset by takin out the battery it will help , what do u think ?

If you only have one drive that is working normally then why change anything?

Win2K remembers it's drive letter assignments and won't let you change the drive letter of the boot partition (the one that contains boot.ini etc on it) or the system partition (the one containing WinNT). It is possible to force a changed drive letter using Partition Magic and then run a Repair Installation of Win2K ... BUT ... NOT RECOMMENDED.