Re: Missing Second Hard Drive


"Jack Ouzzi" <mick.sturbes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1191485281.254096.3540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 3 Oct, 19:50, "Ed Cryer" <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Jack Ouzzi" <mick.stur...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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> On 2 Oct, 20:42, Jack Ouzzi <mick.stur...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,

>> My PC has two separate hard drives 1 SATA drive (from which the PC
>> boots, has the OS and everything else) and 1 ATA drive which I use >> to
>> store files, music, and back up the former.

>> The ATA drive is not jumpered and therefore is set as a 'slave' >> could
>> this be the reason that when I 'hibernate' my PC this drive
>> disappears
>> when she returns to life, both in Device Manager and Windows
>> Explorer .. completely missing ... takes a full reboot to bring it
>> back ... should I jumper the ATA drive to be a master??

>> Mick

> Apologies -Running XP Home

Whether it should run as master or slave depends on the other item on
that particular IDE channel.
Which is what?

Ed

I THINK it is the DVD ROM Ed, will check and get back to you .... boot
sequence in BIOS is set to HD1 (Sata) - HD2 (ATA) - DVD ROM - Floppy

Ah so what you are thinking, and have got me thinking is that the DVD
is the master and is why my second disk goes missing .... or is it??
Will report back ..

TIA


They'll show in your BIOS settings. Primary IDE master/slave; secondary IDE master/slave.

Ed

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