Misrecognized WD Drives

[jerryd3001]

I have a 30GB WD set as Master and either an 8.4 GB WD or 60 GB WD set as slave (as removable drives) on an AMD 1700+ machine with AWDFLASH Bios and Epox 8KHA+ DDR motherboard. The bios recognizes the drives perfectly, and I can copy partitions using Data Lifeguard from the diskette, but when I get to Windows ME, the drives are reversed and the slave is mislabled (both with the same label as the master). The computer always boots to the slave (or won't boot to the new 60 GB drive if it is set as slave since it is only partitioned and formatted, which was done by configuring it as the master with no other drives connected). I have tried every possible cable and jumper configuration, always with the same results. Any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks in advance. Jerry

 

[Synapse5444]

You can change your drive letters and such in ME. Take a look at

http://www.google.com

and search on how to do that.

 

[jerryd3001]

I figured out the problem--me--and I don't mean Windows ME. When I rebooted from configuring the drives I would get a message something like, "Do you want to reboot because of the new set up." I'm so used to ignoring these with Windows updates that I just clicked on No. This meant that Windows wasn't able to reconfigure for the new hard drive set up and was showing the proper hardware with the old labels and old Master/Slave locations. As soon as I clicked on Yes to reboot, everything came up exactly like it should.

Jerry