Subj : Re: Master/slave settings swtiched when powered off
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Subject: Re: Master/slave settings swtiched when powered off
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:02:40 -0700
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:57:49 -0700, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"
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>Pardon the cross-posting. win2000 newsgroup is practically dead.
>
>What could have happened to cause this problem? Master and slave drives
were switched without me doing anything.....
>
>The system has Windows 2000 Prof. Today I shut down powered down the system
as usual - Start > Shut down, etc. The an hour later powered up. When the
first screen came up, I noticed the slave drive mfr/model was listed as master
and vice versa. I let it start up as normal, and the desktop was like when
first installed. Opened Windows Explorer and c: drive was in fact the former
slave. Former master was now one of the other drive letters. All the other
drives were there, but with different letters.
>
>I also noticed something in the recycle bin - which is normally empty. It has
a couple of backup folders that had been on the original master. They were
1-2 GB each, and there's no way I would have deleted those accidentally. If
they were deleted it would take a minute on this machine to go thru the
deletion process. So I moved them back to a safe place on a drive.
>
>Then I hit start > shutdown > restart. Hit DEL and sure enough they were
showing up as being switched. I set it up to manually set them back, rebooted
and all came up normally again.
>
>Now all is back to normal.
>
Beats me. It could be a drive controller on the MB going bad. Could
be other things - lost setting in the BIOS. When you hit DEL on
reboot it found the master again.
- check the cable on the drive, disconnect from the MB & drive and
connect it again
- Boot sector corruption on the drive?
- Do a virus scan
Run Belarc Advisor <
http://www.belarc.com/> a free product. Do the
definition update. Cut and paste the OS, Drives, Controllers & Virus
Protection parts of the report back here.
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