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Slave hard drive won't load at startup

Started by DjStik93 , Jul 02 2006 01:46 PM

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DjStik93

Posted 02 July 2006 - 01:46 PM

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Hey all,
One of my hard drives won't load when i reboot. I have to keep going into the Device Manager and do "Scan for hardware changes" for it to show up but once i reboot, it goes away again.

The drive is a Seagate, i tried their diagnostic tool to see if the drive has a problem but the test didn't come up with anything.

I also formatted the drive using the Disk Management in Control Panel but still no luck.

By the way, i pulled this drive from my old PC and hooked it up to this one, it was a slave drive in the old as it is in this one also. It never did this on my old machine though.

I'm using Win XP Pro Sp2 if that helps, i have 4 hard drives, 2 on IDEs (the one that doesn't work is the slave one) and 2 SATAs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanx

Edited by DjStik93, 02 July 2006 - 01:47 PM.