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Slave drive dead
Name: ikanatto Date: November 13, 2004 at 06:35:52 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 512mb
Comment:
Hi all I have a maxtor 80GB as my OS/primary drive and installed a WD160GB a year ago. Both running like breeze until last week, my computer slowed down. I couldn't launch XP and after much fiddling, unplugged my slave drive and XP booted fine. I hooked up the slave again and only find the computer slowing down again. XP recognizes my partitioned slave drive, but this time as Drive F: and G: (i have named it something else). Impossible to open the drives, nor re-format. usually hangs if i try to do so. Nothing important in the slave so i don't mind reformatting it. But i'm not even sure if the drive is down. Any experience with this problem?
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