you have a virus go to www.antivirus.com click on upgrade then go to the
left and click on rescue dise it is very good i've used it often good luck
george barrett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek McBride" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:19 PM
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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