re: hdd disappears
Sunday, November 11, 2001 at 1:48 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by whales
(16 messages posted)
From all indications, it seems your bios is playing up - why not upgrade to the latest
bios for your motherboard? Have you tried replacing the cmos battery and still loses
settings stored?
On Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 8:56 pm, Walter wrote:
>I just installed XP and I had both my drives show up fine (C,D), but then I was
messing
>with the Network Wizard and it froze, on reboot, I noticed that the drive was turned
>off and when windows loads, in explorer the D drive dissappeared, I tried system
>restore and it told me that it cannot restore drive D because it was turned off,
>when I look in BIOS, it cannot detect the drive now.
>
>I would appreciate any help, feedback.
>Thanks.
>
>
>On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 8:03 am, whales wrote:
>is the second hdd registered in bios as a slave and saved on closing? Could it be
>the cmos battery is playing up - why not change the battery as a starting point
>and
>let's see what happens next...
>
>
>On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 6:17 am, Ben wrote:
>
>I've noticed sometimes my extra hdd will just disappear, and cant be accessed until
>i totally shut down the computer (restart doesnt seem to do it). the drive letters
>are still correct, just that D is missing
>
>my main hdd in ntfs format, and the one that disappears is fat32. i think perhaps
>it has somethign to do with XP putting the hdds to sleep after 20 mins, set in the
>power control panel?
>any suggestions?
>
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