check for a virus go to www.antivirus.com they have a very good set of
rescue disks good luck george barrett----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Dias" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Missing Drives


> Yes, it absolutely sounds like a power supply issue. I've experienced it
> before. Ideally one should have a 300W model, particularly if it's an AMD
> processor.
>
>
>
>
> At 02:56 AM 6/6/2003 +0100, Michele wrote:
> >Had a similar problem recently when I removed a rewriter from a system my
> >son had been using.
> >It was fine when I restarted, and then the C drive just seemed to
disappear
> >gradually, as though it was dying out. It started off by becoming
sluggish,
> >so I scanned it, restarted, and it disappeared completely.
> >My first thought was a virus, but I have an antivirus installed with up
to
> >date definitions.
> >I changed cables, thinking that was my problem, and eventually began to
> >think the hard drive had seen better days. It hadn't given any trouble
until
> >the time I removed the rewriter.
> >The cdrom was showing at every boot, but it was just the hard drive which
> >wasn't registering.
> >After alot of thinking, I decided to give it one last try, and changed
the
> >power supply cables around, and it worked.
> >Both drives now register every time as they always did before.
> >My conclusion is that I must have knocked the power cable loose when I
> >removed the r/w, and not realised.
> >I would suggest that you double check the power supply by rearranging the
> >power cables, as I had already tried wiggling the cables myself, and for
> >some reason it still didn't do the trick until I changed them round
> >completely.
> >Hopefully your problem is as simple as this.
> >Michele Sayer
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Derek McBride" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:19 AM
> >Subject: [PCBUILD] Missing Drives
> >
> >
> > > I have had a sporadic problem for 3 months on this system. (700MHZ
Celeron
> >370, 384Mb RAM, 20GBt HD, CD-ROM, CD-RW:-Win98SE)
> > > One, or other, or both of the cd drives disappear from the My Computer
> >panel.
> > > If I wriggled the IDE cables, they came back, so I replaced the cables
> >with the round sort.
> > > All was ok for a week or two, then, LO! my E drive wasn't there.
> > > I switched off and LO!, the E drive had gone, but the D drive was
back.  I
> >wiggled the new cables and LO! they are both back.
> > >
> > > Do IDE sockets give trouble?  Never heard of it.
> > >
> > > Is it the mother board or the BIOS?  It might not be the cables, but
the
> >re-starts that alter something.
> > >
> > > This isn't the first time I have come to a forum with this problem but
> >everybody thought it was the cables.
> > >
> > > Any more help out there.
> > >
> > > Derek McBride
> > >
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