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Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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Name: frodaddy
Date: July 10, 2006 at 09:24:34 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot
OS: WINNT SP6
CPU/Ram: Pentium 3 256 MB
Model/Manufacturer: Clone

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I just installed a 160 GB IDE drive. I used Disk admin to assign the drive letter and make it active. when rebooted the drive letter is gone and I have to re-assign it. The Operating System is installed on a SCSI hard drive. Any idea as to why it's doing this? Please help. Thanks

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Response Number 1

Name: inverto
Date: July 10, 2006 at 10:06:23 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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http://nt4ref.zcm.com.au/bigdisk.htm

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Response Number 2

Name: frodaddy
Date: July 10, 2006 at 12:36:18 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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Thanks for the response. Winnt shows the drive as being 157 GB still despite the win NT 137 GB limitation. I originaly installed it as a slave drive on a w2k machine and formated it on there. Maybe it has something to do with the drive losing the drive letter. I'll try formating it in Winnt and see what happens. Thanks again.

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Response Number 3

Name: inverto
Date: July 10, 2006 at 14:04:32 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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W2K uses NTFS 3.1, NT uses NTFS 3.0
Not forward compatable....

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Response Number 4

Name: frodaddy
Date: July 11, 2006 at 06:03:31 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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Formating done in Winnt and I also made the size 130 GB. Made drive active and assigned it to F:
Rebooted machine and F: disappeared again. Had to log back in as admin and use disk admin to re-assign Drive letter. I'm stumped. Any other ideas inverto??
Thanks for the replies

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Response Number 5

Name: inverto
Date: July 11, 2006 at 06:16:50 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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Does the PC Motherboard BIOS support 48LBA drives or even drives over 40GB ???

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Response Number 6

Name: frodaddy
Date: July 11, 2006 at 13:37:49 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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Yes the BIOS does support it. I've gone into the bios and had it detect the hard drive no problem. It's gotta be a winnt thing. I'm all out of ideas.

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Response Number 7

Name: wanderer
Date: July 15, 2006 at 14:55:06 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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you only make the booting drive active. Making this drives partition active is a mistake
Delete all partitions. Recreate as one as large as it will go. format it ntfs. don't make the drive active.
Once complete reboot. If same problem reapply service pack 6a.
If the bios supports boot order make sure scsi is first. There are known problems with ide drives in a booting scsi drive system due to bios wanting to boot ide over scsi.
Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

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Response Number 8

Name: turbopidar
Date: May 2, 2008 at 13:20:20 Pacific
Subject: Drive Letter Gone after Reboot

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