Second hard drive suddenly not recognized

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i was having trouble getting my internal USB 7 in 1 card reader to show up in
XP and someone suggested i shut down and do a cold boot (rather than just a
restart). not only did this not fix the card reader problem, my secondary
hard drive no longer appears in "my computer" "explorer" or anywhere else. if
i try to access files on that drive (ie. my music library) it says "location
of file cannot be found" or something to that effect. what's going on?
 
Try power off,locate the CMOS jumper pin on the board,move the pin from
1-2 to 2-3 position for 1 minute,then back to 1-2,remove the battery before
this.Once completed,start computer,you'll need to reset BIOS
basics,date,time,
then exit page,set to:load optimal defaults or load set up dafaults,then
back in
BIOS and adjust for add-in cards,audio,etc,then after,"Save and Exit"
BIOS.This
clears and faults that may have happened.
 
Andrew - this advice is totally worthless and irrelevant to the issue at
hand.
This latest offering is "Destructive". What you suggest is likely to cause
the
poster even more problems than the current issue(s). It's one thing to post
up some unrelated, but innocuous suggestion - but this advice is
detrimental.
 
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Andrew E. said:
Try power off,locate the CMOS jumper pin on the board,move the pin
from 1-2 to 2-3 position for 1 minute,then back to 1-2,remove the
battery before this.Once completed,start computer,you'll need to
reset BIOS basics,date,time,
then exit page,set to:load optimal defaults or load set up
dafaults,then back in
BIOS and adjust for add-in cards,audio,etc,then after,"Save and Exit"
BIOS.This
clears and faults that may have happened.

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Why do you keep giveing distructive advice?
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lewisglenn said:
i was having trouble getting my internal USB 7 in 1 card reader to
show up in XP and someone suggested i shut down and do a cold boot
(rather than just a restart). not only did this not fix the card
reader problem, my secondary hard drive no longer appears in "my
computer" "explorer" or anywhere else. if i try to access files on
that drive (ie. my music library) it says "location of file cannot be
found" or something to that effect. what's going on?
Click to expand...

Have you tried rebooting? Was this a card you installed yourself, and has it
ever worked?

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