Subj : Re: Master/slave settings swtiched when powered off To : All From : Oren@127.0.0.1 Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:14 pm Path: eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Oren Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.hardware,alt.home.repair,microsoft.public.windowsxp.he lp_and_support Subject: Re: Master/slave settings swtiched when powered off Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:02:40 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <65assapop6o14u8jtjdlc1dfcrb2o35kql@4ax.com> References: <64edncBJD96qg1PInZ2dnUU7-IWdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8de9923373fef248b216f78ebb3a7137"; logging-data="9887"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+KcVVfIkH526Hn7Wzv9vHL" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.0/32.763 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ujfdgbhxx7xKu8I3xLh9H3Ol+8I= Xref: mx02.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.win2000.hardware:152 alt.home.repair:428138 microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:31727 On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:57:49 -0700, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney" wrote: >Pardon the cross-posting. win2000 newsgroup is practically dead. > >What could have happened to cause this problem? Master and slave drives were switched without me doing anything..... > >The system has Windows 2000 Prof. Today I shut down powered down the system as usual - Start > Shut down, etc. The an hour later powered up. When the first screen came up, I noticed the slave drive mfr/model was listed as master and vice versa. I let it start up as normal, and the desktop was like when first installed. Opened Windows Explorer and c: drive was in fact the former slave. Former master was now one of the other drive letters. All the other drives were there, but with different letters. > >I also noticed something in the recycle bin - which is normally empty. It has a couple of backup folders that had been on the original master. They were 1-2 GB each, and there's no way I would have deleted those accidentally. If they were deleted it would take a minute on this machine to go thru the deletion process. So I moved them back to a safe place on a drive. > >Then I hit start > shutdown > restart. Hit DEL and sure enough they were showing up as being switched. I set it up to manually set them back, rebooted and all came up normally again. > >Now all is back to normal. > Beats me. It could be a drive controller on the MB going bad. Could be other things - lost setting in the BIOS. When you hit DEL on reboot it found the master again. - check the cable on the drive, disconnect from the MB & drive and connect it again - Boot sector corruption on the drive? - Do a virus scan Run Belarc Advisor a free product. Do the definition update. Cut and paste the OS, Drives, Controllers & Virus Protection parts of the report back here. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .