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At 09:01 AM 07/04/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> Recently I am having problems w my floppy drive and all of my hard drives
>when configured as Primary slave.My primary master/ boot drive C has no
>apparent problems.
>I no longer have access to the A:\. I have swapped it out for a known good
>one but still it doesn't recognized ANY floppies as formatted.
>My Primary Slave drive is also showing up as unformatted as well.
>I have a Master Slave setup on the 2nd IDE channel for 52x cdrom/24x CDR
>burner and so far no issues with these. It only seems to be affecting my
>physical hard drives and floppy drives.
>I have the latest virus definitions of Norton AV
>and no viruses are being found.
>I can take any physical hard drive out of this system that are being
>detected as unformatted and put into another system and all partitions
>etc.... are recognized in fdisk, and in Windows.
>However, in this system I have no way to get into fdisk except by booting
>directly into the command prompt via f8 then pathing it to the
>windows/command/fdisk. No partitions are being recognized in fdisk,or
>windows for the primary slave drive even though I know they are there. The
>only thing I haven't tried yet is to change the position of the primary
>slave to master 2nd. Because I am having the same issue with the A:\ I don't
>think this will resolve anything.
>This indicates to me that I have either the bios chip going bad/ dying or
>something in the IDE bus channels are failing.
>When I boot using the C:\ into windows it is rock solid. No crashes,etc...
>When I try to add any new drives etc.... no recognition as a formatted hard
>drive.
>Any knowledgeable techs chime in.
>
>Please Advise
>
>Barry Clark
>MCSE
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Thanks,

Joe

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