Try this check: next time you boot, go into the cmos settings and see if
they show the drives properly. If they do not, your system is old
enough ("win2k") that the cmos battery needs to be replaced. This is an
easy check and quick fix. If the drives are displayed correctly, then
your problem could be in your bios or operating system. Trying a
"repair" from the os disk might help. (I am not familiar with sin2k.)
When the cmos battery goes bad, all sorts of weird things can happen
(including getting the wrong date and time every time you boot - usually
the first indication), but I have not ever observed your particular
problem nor remember reading anything like it here.
Dean Kukral
----- Original Message -----
From: "alan smith" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 11:12 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive help
Do I have a dandy !! 2weeks ago I took out the "C" drive (160Gb)
because of funny things happening. I put in an 80Gb with Win2Kpro, p4,
2.4Gb, 1Gb RAM and all new programs installed ( not from old drive ).
When that was running good, I installed another 80Gb drive as a slave,
partitioned it into 25 & 55Gb, "F" & "G", formatted both and installed
documents, videos and pictures. All went well until last Friday when,
because of antics of IE & microsoft, I switched to FIREFOX as my
browser.
In computer management it used to look like
Disk 0 basic, active, on line, healthy & Disk1 basic and it showed the
partition
for F & g drives.
Tonight, Sunday, I wanted to put a menu document into "F" and I had
trouble. I opened MY COMPUTER and "F" was local disk, no circle showing
Gb AND no
"G" drive! So I went into COMPUTER MANAGEMENT and WOW ???
Disk 0 was okay, but look what happened to "F" & "G" !
Disk 1 basic, online, 1333.79GB
Section 1 - 64.00Gb unallocated. Section 2 "F" 84.81Gb, healthy,
active
Section 3 (shown in GREEN) 117.71 free space and
Section 4 1067.26Gb unallocated
AND in MY COMPUTER, when I go to open "F", I get a window saying that
"F" is not formatted, do I want to do it now !!!
I have AVAST pro for virus, Spy Bot S&D (which was slow opening ) and
Ad aware. Saturday I shut down AVAST and did a scan with the other 2.
Spy-Bot found 18 entries which I deleted.
Has anyone had this kind of problem ?? Please help. Many thanks to
all.
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