Drive mapped wrong......?

Some how i have a drive mapped wrong. i have:
A: floppy
B: none
C: 40 gig HD
D: 3 gig HD
E: CD R/W this is the problem one
F: CD R

Some how E is mapped as a hard drive and the system does not see the cd burner. The burner drivers are installed. How can i clear E drive and map it to the Cd burner?

 

zinco:
It sounds like you have problem with the way that your optical drives and hard drives are configured. Your settings for which device is set as master and which devices are set as slaves will effect how these units are detected by your pc. Look at your documents that came with your drives to set jumpers on the units to proper master/slave settings.
Hope this helps, Tom

 

oops forgot to update this. it was two in the morning and i was pulling my hair out with drivers and such and i had forgotten to plug the ide cable back into the burner. that was my problem. i still got an E drive mapped as a hard drive and there isn't one though.

A: floppy
B: none
C: 40 gig HD
D: 3 gig HD
E: HD that is not there.
F: CD R
G: CD R/W

How can i get rid of that one. E

 

C: 40 gig HD
D: 3 gig HD
E: HD that is not there

Are these separate physical hard drive or partitions of one HD ?

E : could be an unformated partition.

If two HDs do both have Primary partitions on them ? If so the second HD does not need one.

BillyBob

 

C: the 40 gig hard drive was brand new and i formatted it with western digital software.
D: the 3 gig HD is from the old computer and i put it in just so the old files would be there.

those are both physically seperate HD's

E: is NOT a physically seperate HD and i really don't know how it ended up there. I think it mapped the secondary slave cable as a hard drive when really it was just unplugged from the cd burner. i was trying to install the burner and the ide cable was unplugged. somewhere in there i ended up with an E: HDD

When i plugged the cable in and installed the burner it mapped to G: no problem.

I did not partition any thing.....at least not on purpose.

 

OK. I checked to make sure we are in the Win98 Forum. As I have never seem 98 do this.

If not in 98 then I would say blame XP cause it did that to me when I was adding a Slave Drive and removed a Partition from the master AFTER adding this slave.

Some possibilities.

Check the Bios for proper settings. Set to Auto should be OK. has always worked OK for me.

Check all jumper settings for a Master and slave on each cable.

Now. If you have a CD Burner then it may ( but I doubt ) be that the software for it is messing things out. ( proper working wise I thing it may because of drive letter change ).

This is why I always ( no matter what OS ) set the CDs up to S: & T: first thing after the OS is installed. That keeps them always in the same place does not mess them up when adding HDs or Partitions.

BillyBob