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27th Oct 2007, 18:08
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 Strange Hard Drive/CD-ROM Detection 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? |
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30th Oct 2007, 23:54
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| Strange Hard Drive/CD-ROM Detection Sounds like a mix-up in the configuration in the bios. Have you amended to reflect the changes? (sequence, master/slave).
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31st Oct 2007, 22:21
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