Computer Genius's needed!!!
09-25-2004, 01:05 AM
#1
OK to begine, i had two hard drives and two cd roms.
Western Digital = 80gb (primary master)
Maxtor drive = 60gb (primary slave)
dvd-rom (secondary master)
cdrw (secondary slave)
Adding in a new 200gb Seagate drive now. It's going in place of the Maxtor, and the maxtor is going to be run thru a controller card.
Everything is fine, i'm in windows seagate drive works well shows 186gb of room.
Maxtor drive jumper settings as slave...connected to IDE1 on the controller card shows up as primary slave in the controller card bios settings (that cannot be changed). I'm unable to access this drive, but with these settings i am able to get into windows.
Windows see's the maxtor drive, but i can't access it.
"G:\ is not accessible The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file."
One suggestion said i may need to format that drive before it'll properly work on the controller card. I'd prefer not to do so, cause it has 7000 songs on it right now, plus some other stuff and xferring it would be a big pain in connecting hte drives up in various configurations to do so.
Western Digital = 80gb (primary master)
Maxtor drive = 60gb (primary slave)
dvd-rom (secondary master)
cdrw (secondary slave)
Adding in a new 200gb Seagate drive now. It's going in place of the Maxtor, and the maxtor is going to be run thru a controller card.
Everything is fine, i'm in windows seagate drive works well shows 186gb of room.
Maxtor drive jumper settings as slave...connected to IDE1 on the controller card shows up as primary slave in the controller card bios settings (that cannot be changed). I'm unable to access this drive, but with these settings i am able to get into windows.
Windows see's the maxtor drive, but i can't access it.
"G:\ is not accessible The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file."
One suggestion said i may need to format that drive before it'll properly work on the controller card. I'd prefer not to do so, cause it has 7000 songs on it right now, plus some other stuff and xferring it would be a big pain in connecting hte drives up in various configurations to do so.
09-25-2004, 01:15 AM
#3
survey says controller card is ata66
i could run it that way, but since songs will be on 200gb drive, along with movies and similar which are all often accessed like 100% of the time...thought it'd be smarter to have it as drive g?
i could run it that way, but since songs will be on 200gb drive, along with movies and similar which are all often accessed like 100% of the time...thought it'd be smarter to have it as drive g?
09-25-2004, 02:06 PM
#7
ok...well i took the first gentlemen's advice, and put the seagate 200gb as slave on the controller and the computer see's all three drives to a point. But since i already formatted and partitioned the seagate....now that i've moved it to the controller, it's not 100% cooperating. So i've been try'n to format again and partition it. Windows isn't up to that feat, nor is the seagate software doh.
So partition magic is on the download and hopefully that can help me out, then after a format and partition i'm hoping it'll work just peachy
So partition magic is on the download and hopefully that can help me out, then after a format and partition i'm hoping it'll work just peachy
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