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Name: m2singh
Date: May 28, 2005 at 11:20:02 Pacific
OS: W98
CPU/Ram: AMD-K6 3D | 24.0MB RAM
Comment:

My old PC no longer recognizes my slave drive.

What to do?



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Response Number 1
Name: jboy
Date: May 28, 2005 at 11:31:11 Pacific
Reply:

What does that mean, exactly? Is the drive seen in the BIOS, but not in Windows? Is it even working? Can you access it from a DOS start? Fdisk?


Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.


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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: May 28, 2005 at 11:34:38 Pacific
Reply:

Does the light light?

Does it go round & round?

M2


If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.


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Response Number 3
Name: Dan Penny
Date: May 28, 2005 at 11:40:45 Pacific
Reply:

"Does it go round & round?"

LMAO

It's a good day when you learn something


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Response Number 4
Name: ham30
Date: May 28, 2005 at 11:43:16 Pacific
Reply:

Boot from a win98 startup floppy and type:
scandisk c:
If that fails, download a diagnostic from the hard drive manufacturer's web site.


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Response Number 5
Name: ham30
Date: May 28, 2005 at 11:44:35 Pacific
Reply:

Ooops, should be
scandisk D:
Or whatever your slave drive is.


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Response Number 6
Name: m2singh
Date: May 28, 2005 at 12:20:53 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks for the quick responses.

I can't find the Slave Drive in DOS.

scandisk didn't find it either.

I'm not sure about the "lights" or "around, around", since its the Slave (secondary)Drive - the Master Drive is giving its lights and going round and round and I can hear it...I don't know how to differentiate between Master/Slave by this criteria?

I don't know how to check via BIOS.

Basically, I had A: (Floppy) C: (Master), D: (Slave) and E: (CD)...Its not reading the D: (Slave), so the CD Drive its reading as D: now.

I don't know why it just stopped reading the original secondary drive?

[Does it help to know that the secondary/slave drive was installed later...but, that was about 5 years ago...and its always worked since.]

Please help


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Response Number 7
Name: jboy
Date: May 28, 2005 at 12:39:33 Pacific
Reply:

Any error messages? Might help, y'know.

How do I get into CMOS?

Instructions for setup should be listed onscreen - ASTs were often CTRL-ALT-ESC

Once you've mastered that, see if there is a listing for the slaved drive - if not, not much else matters

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.


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Response Number 8
Name: m2singh
Date: May 28, 2005 at 14:52:32 Pacific
Reply:

Alrite, I checked through BIOS. No luck. Its just not being located. It only shows that machine as having one hard drive.


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Response Number 9
Name: jboy
Date: May 28, 2005 at 15:11:46 Pacific
Reply:

Ok, well, there's a good chance that it's failed.

You might check the cables & ensure that they are snugly attached, see if the drive is spinning (listen, actually), or try different power or data cables.

You may be able to use the drive manufacturer's diagnostic, although (depending) it may not be able to test an unrecognized drive

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.


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Response Number 10
Name: OtheHill
Date: May 29, 2005 at 14:24:55 Pacific
Reply:

Watch the PSOT screens at startup for ALL drives to be identified by model.


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Response Number 11
Name: m2singh
Date: May 30, 2005 at 13:32:03 Pacific
Reply:

Thank you all.

Turns out that one of the cables had detached - i just plugged it back in, and am good to go.

whew!


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