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Thread ID: 66847 2006-03-08 21:32:00 Drive Not Detected--Sometimes! amyes5 (2773) Press F1
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436795 2006-03-08 21:32:00 My computer cannot find a recently installed slave hard drive on the INITIAL boot & tells me "volume ... is missing" but when I do a quick reboot it then says "new voume mapping has been set up" & hey presto second drive is there.Start computer later & its back to square one. I figure that somewhere before I shut down I need to "apply/confirm" this volume mapping. Yes/No???
Or is there something I need to change in the BIOS? Boot sequence maybe?
Primary HD is a Samsung & slave is a Maxtor both 10 gig - different speeds I think with slave faster of the two.I'm using WME. Any suggestions please.
amyes5 (2773)
436796 2006-03-08 22:01:00 Is this error coming up before Windows loads or is it a windows error? CYaBro (73)
436797 2006-03-08 22:11:00 try setting the faster drive to master & slower one to slave. Are either of them on cable select? Greven (91)
436798 2006-03-08 23:20:00 This sort of thing is sometimes caused by lost BIOS configuration settings. The BIOS backup cell might be dying. Check the system date and time after the first boot of the day. Graham L (2)
436799 2006-03-09 06:54:00 For anyone interested Greven had the solution.I made the faster drive the master & away it went.Thanks guys for your responses. amyes5 (2773)
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