open up the case and swap the position of the drive connections to the mother board.
Since you dont mention your system if you are using SATA put the E drive on SATA 0 if your are running IDE with the ribbon cable, check the jumpers on the back of the drive. IF not set to cable select(CS) then set the E drive as master and the C driver to slave. then place the E drive on the connector at the very end of the flat cable and the C driver to the middle connector.
ThanK you, I evidently did not explain my problem well, and I don't know how to do what you said, My new HDD has become an E drive and I do not have another HDD other than my passport, THe C drive is shown as a removeable device and asks for a disk when I tried it. all other drives are marked as what they are, ie A in usb, DVD burner is drive F, there simply is no way to get to C as I don't know where it went. It was a few hours after the OS was reinstalled before I found the HDD. I am not really smart when it comes to computers. I know it is Sata anfd can be set to ACHI or ATA. I really don't know what that is! Thanks
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October 17th, 2009 14:00
open up the case and swap the position of the drive connections to the mother board.
Since you dont mention your system if you are using SATA put the E drive on SATA 0 if your are running IDE with the ribbon cable, check the jumpers on the back of the drive. IF not set to cable select(CS) then set the E drive as master and the C driver to slave. then place the E drive on the connector at the very end of the flat cable and the C driver to the middle connector.
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October 17th, 2009 16:00
What is your computer model and what OS are you running?
helen377
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October 17th, 2009 16:00
ThanK you, I evidently did not explain my problem well, and I don't know how to do what you said, My new HDD has become an E drive and I do not have another HDD other than my passport, THe C drive is shown as a removeable device and asks for a disk when I tried it. all other drives are marked as what they are, ie A in usb, DVD burner is drive F, there simply is no way to get to C as I don't know where it went. It was a few hours after the OS was reinstalled before I found the HDD. I am not really smart when it comes to computers. I know it is Sata anfd can be set to ACHI or ATA. I really don't know what that is! Thanks
helen377
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October 17th, 2009 17:00
I have a Dell XPS210 with MS windows OS XP PRO 5.1.2600 Thanks