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entwisi · 13-04-2007, 07:12

The reason I asked about jumpers is that her 'slave' could have been set to cable select, depending on how the internels of your pc are wired this could mean that you endeded up with two 'masters' on one ide channel. The fact that the output that you posted does not even show it trying IDE0 ( or CH0 as your PC likes to call it) is typical of two HDs fighting the BIOS to be 'master'. At this point depending on teh BIOS it may have now got its knickers in a twist and be usure of which drive is teh true master, by forcing teh selection in boot menu you remove that confusion.

You could try doing autodetect on teh hard disks and make sure during boot that it identifies them properly in teh correct order(most POST screens show teh make/model number of teh HDs, if these show up as 'corrupt' text then try unplugging teh slave and starting with just master, if this then works fine you know that there is a resource confict.

PS, to check Floppy and CD for boot sectors takes few thousand milliseconds and you can always make the change for the odd time you need it. it will also protect you should someone leave an infected disc in either drive.

13-04-2007, 07:12	#4
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Computer Problem The reason I asked about jumpers is that her 'slave' could have been set to cable select, depending on how the internels of your pc are wired this could mean that you endeded up with two 'masters' on one ide channel. The fact that the output that you posted does not even show it trying IDE0 ( or CH0 as your PC likes to call it) is typical of two HDs fighting the BIOS to be 'master'. At this point depending on teh BIOS it may have now got its knickers in a twist and be usure of which drive is teh true master, by forcing teh selection in boot menu you remove that confusion. You could try doing autodetect on teh hard disks and make sure during boot that it identifies them properly in teh correct order(most POST screens show teh make/model number of teh HDs, if these show up as 'corrupt' text then try unplugging teh slave and starting with just master, if this then works fine you know that there is a resource confict. PS, to check Floppy and CD for boot sectors takes few thousand milliseconds and you can always make the change for the odd time you need it. it will also protect you should someone leave an infected disc in either drive. __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?