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Ever since I upgraded to a newer PC several months ago, I've been planning on assembling another PC,
to use primarily as a server, but to also be available as a "backup" to my primary PC. Because this
was my intent, I purchased an indentical motherboard, the same amount of RAM, the same CPU, etc. As
it turns out, the only difference between the two is that because I'm using two different style
cases, I have to reduce the number of drives in my "backup" box by one. So I omitted one optical
drive. Note that I also use removable cartridges for my hdds, so installing, removing, swapping one
or more drives is as easy as shutting down, unlocking, removing and then inserting, locking and
booting up.
Last week my primary PC died. So it was time to assembl;e my "backup" box, which I had not yet
done...
Everything seemed to be going along fine, until the last moment, so to speak. After the POST, when
the disk was supposed to be read, I got an error message:
A disk read eror occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
If I do the three finger salute, I come right back to the very same place.
There is one other thing that's different in this process, and it's something that I do NOT
understand. On my primary PC, the one that died, my system drive is drive 0 ( 'PRIMARY MASTER' ).
For some reason, and this may be why I can't boot it up, I don't know, my VERY SAME DRIVE...is
showing up as 'THIRD MASTER'. ( I have the standard on board IDE controller for both Primary &
Secondary, and I also have a PCI IDE controller installed, hence the 'third'. )
At any rate, I cannot figure out what's going on. I was hoping that perhaps soneone out there might
have a clue, suggestion, thought...whatever. Any help you might provide would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Tom
to use primarily as a server, but to also be available as a "backup" to my primary PC. Because this
was my intent, I purchased an indentical motherboard, the same amount of RAM, the same CPU, etc. As
it turns out, the only difference between the two is that because I'm using two different style
cases, I have to reduce the number of drives in my "backup" box by one. So I omitted one optical
drive. Note that I also use removable cartridges for my hdds, so installing, removing, swapping one
or more drives is as easy as shutting down, unlocking, removing and then inserting, locking and
booting up.
Last week my primary PC died. So it was time to assembl;e my "backup" box, which I had not yet
done...
Everything seemed to be going along fine, until the last moment, so to speak. After the POST, when
the disk was supposed to be read, I got an error message:
A disk read eror occurred
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart
If I do the three finger salute, I come right back to the very same place.
There is one other thing that's different in this process, and it's something that I do NOT
understand. On my primary PC, the one that died, my system drive is drive 0 ( 'PRIMARY MASTER' ).
For some reason, and this may be why I can't boot it up, I don't know, my VERY SAME DRIVE...is
showing up as 'THIRD MASTER'. ( I have the standard on board IDE controller for both Primary &
Secondary, and I also have a PCI IDE controller installed, hence the 'third'. )
At any rate, I cannot figure out what's going on. I was hoping that perhaps soneone out there might
have a clue, suggestion, thought...whatever. Any help you might provide would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Tom