Combine Slave and Master drives

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aglaiawar

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My orginal hard drive fried on me about 10 months ago. (It was 80GB)

About two months ago I installed a 20GB hard drive and installed Windows.
Today, I installed a new harddrive (400GB) as a slave drive, leaving the 20GB as the master drive so i wouldn't have to reinstall Windows.

Orginally the drives came up as just the C drive with 420GB.

But after I called Dell to help me get my DVD-rom and CD Burner (the D: and E: drives) working (seeing as they didn't show up on My Computer) the two hard drives came up as C:drive & F:drive

Does anyone know how I can get both hard drives to just show up as the C: drive?
(2 hard drives come up as one in "My Computer")
 
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The new drive is seen by Windows as a separate drive. Apparently there was a goof in Windows to see the C=420gb total that was corrected. Whenever you add a drive to the system even logical drives are assigned a designated drive letter. You can reassign drive letters but not combine two separate hard drives under one designation.
 
A SATA array would be in the sense of having a partition extended over more then one drive as one mirrors the other. For separate drives it would be like trying to take a cd or dvd drive make it a part of the C drive. You simply can't assign the same drive letter to more then one drive.
 
aglaiawar said:
My orginal hard drive fried on me about 10 months ago. (It was 80GB)

About two months ago I installed a 20GB hard drive and installed Windows.
Today, I installed a new harddrive (400GB) as a slave drive, leaving the 20GB as the master drive so i wouldn't have to reinstall Windows.

Orginally the drives came up as just the C drive with 420GB.

But after I called Dell to help me get my DVD-rom and CD Burner (the D: and E: drives) working (seeing as they didn't show up on My Computer) the two hard drives came up as C:drive & F:drive

Does anyone know how I can get both hard drives to just show up as the C: drive?
(2 hard drives come up as one in "My Computer")
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All you have to do is go into Computer Management and change the letters of the drives manually. Go to Start > Run and type in compmgmt.msc. Look for drive management. You will have to change the optical drives first to free up D: for your second harddrive, then change the optical drives to whatever you want. You can have them as F: and U: if you want.

If you need help doing it, let me know.
 
SirKenin said:
All you have to do is go into Computer Management and change the letters of the drives manually. Go to Start > Run and type in compmgmt.msc. Look for drive management. You will have to change the optical drives first to free up D: for your second harddrive, then change the optical drives to whatever you want. You can have them as F: and U: if you want.

If you need help doing it, let me know.
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He wants both drives under one drive letter not a reassignment of which drive has what letter. If you can't merge two partitions on one drive how are you going to merge two on two completely separate drives?
 
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