windows xp pro - master and slave drive

[Guest]

Last week I had a slave attached to my master hard drive and they were both
functioning fine. Yesterday I received an error when my electric was
restored in my house, but I did not copy down the error. Today with the
master and slave set up in my computer I cannot see the slave drive. Also my
bios does not pick up the slave drive. Now if I change my slave drive to
master and my master to a slave I see both drives.
Do you know what part of my disk is damaged and can it be repaired?
Is there a download that can repair windows xp through the latest updates at
microsoft?

 

[Guest]

The why when i reverse the drives (both are capable of acting as a master
dirve), I can see both drives. It doesn't sound to me like its a bios
problem.

 

[Guest]

Last week I had a slave attached to my master hard drive and they were both
functioning fine. Yesterday I received an error when my electric was
restored in my house, but I did not copy down the error. Today with the
master and slave set up in my computer I cannot see the slave drive. Also my
bios does not pick up the slave drive. Now if I change my slave drive to
master and my master to a slave I see both drives.
Do you know what part of my disk is damaged and can it be repaired?
Is there a download that can repair windows xp through the latest updates at
microsoft?

This is not a Microsoft issue. Updates and patches will not help.
This sounds like a BIOS setup issue. If you know how to get into the
computer BIOS, then take a look at the settings related to this issue.
I'm not sure why the BIOS settings would have changed, but this would
be one of the first steps in problem-solving this issue.

Good luck with this issue.

 

[Richard Urban]

You are changing the hardware configuration and it works. Yet you don't
think it is a hardware issue? Why not?

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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