[Morglor9]

I have recently had the hard drive in an old computer of mine (AMD K6-2 500MHz) fail, and replaced the drive, installed Windows and a 20GB slave so that I had more space. Everything worked fine.In an attempt to salvage the data off of the old hard drive, I disconnected the CD-ROM (which was the sole drive on this cable, set as the master drive) and connected the failed HDD. SMART detected that the hard drive was about to fail, I loaded windows anyway (off of the good drive) and wasn't able to access the failed drive, as I expected.

Long story short, now when I connect the CD-ROM as it was before, with either only the master hard drive or the master and slave on the other, it is unable to detect either the CD-ROM or the Primary Master HDD. However, if I boot the computer without the CD-ROM connected, it will detect the hard drives and can load normally, and if I disconnect the hard drives it can detect the CD-ROM, which will work fine (though I can't load, obviously). I was wondering what could have caused this and what I could do to fix it. Any ideas?

[alex]

Sounds like a mix-up in the configuration in the bios. Have you amended to reflect the changes? (sequence, master/slave).

[Morglor9]

Originally Posted by alex Sounds like a mix-up in the configuration in the bios. Have you amended to reflect the changes? (sequence, master/slave).

I thought I had, but I suppose I should double check them.