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windows xp pro - master and slave drive
Posted by JK on January 25th, 2006


Last week I had a slave attached to my master hard drive and they were both
functioning fine. Yesterday I received an error when my electric was
restored in my house, but I did not copy down the error. Today with the
master and slave set up in my computer I cannot see the slave drive. Also my
bios does not pick up the slave drive. Now if I change my slave drive to
master and my master to a slave I see both drives.
Do you know what part of my disk is damaged and can it be repaired?
Is there a download that can repair windows xp through the latest updates at
microsoft?

Posted by JK on January 25th, 2006


The why when i reverse the drives (both are capable of acting as a master
dirve), I can see both drives. It doesn't sound to me like its a bios
problem.

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Posted by on January 25th, 2006


On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:59:01 -0800, "JK"
<JK@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

This is not a Microsoft issue. Updates and patches will not help.
This sounds like a BIOS setup issue. If you know how to get into the
computer BIOS, then take a look at the settings related to this issue.
I'm not sure why the BIOS settings would have changed, but this would
be one of the first steps in problem-solving this issue.

Good luck with this issue.

Posted by Richard Urban on January 26th, 2006


You are changing the hardware configuration and it works. Yet you don't
think it is a hardware issue? Why not?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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