My data drive is possessed by a formerly connected drive
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Posted by on February 12, 2006, 8:49 am
Please log in for more thread options I disconnected my DVD-drive from my secondary master, connected the old there, and moved the files. I then disconnected the 1.2 GB drive and reconnected my DVD-drive. After that something odd happened. My 250 GB data drive, which is connected as secondary slave, now thinks that it is a nearly empty drive with a capacity of 1.2 GB. I didn't touch any jumpers. I've tried to dis- and reconnect the drive. Both physically and in BIOS and I've tried to remove all drives in the device manager in XP (except my system drive), and let XP find them again on startup. But XP keeps insisting, that I now have an empty 1.2 GB drive, where I used to have a 250 GB drive with lots of data on it. Where is the information stored, that makes my PC believe, that it has a 1.2. GB drive connected? Has anyone had similar experiences? Any help would be highly appreciated. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by philo on February 12, 2006, 9:42 am
Please log in for more thread options the bios has probably reset to the 1.2gig drive and stayed there... go back into the bios and reset it... normally you can put all channels on "auto" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on February 12, 2006, 11:21 am
Please log in for more thread options Thanks for your idea.
But my BIOS was already set to auto and it does recognize the drive as being there and being 250GB (I just realized that, when I rechecked if it was set to auto). XP however, insists that it's 1.2GB even after it has been physically disconnected and deleted in device manager. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by on February 12, 2006, 11:26 am
Please log in for more thread options "XP however, insists that it's 1.2GB even after it has been physically
disconnected and deleted in device manager." i.e. after it has been reconnected. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by philo on February 12, 2006, 11:31 am
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> "XP however, insists that it's 1.2GB even after it has been physically
> disconnected and deleted in device manager." > > i.e. after it has been reconnected. > have a look in disk management... how does it see the drive? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> I disconnected my DVD-drive from my secondary master, connected the old
> there, and moved the files. I then disconnected the 1.2 GB drive and
> reconnected my DVD-drive.
>
> After that something odd happened. My 250 GB data drive, which is
> connected as secondary slave, now thinks that it is a nearly empty
> drive with a capacity of 1.2 GB.
>
> I didn't touch any jumpers.
>
> I've tried to dis- and reconnect the drive. Both physically and in BIOS
> and I've tried to remove all drives in the device manager in XP (except
> my system drive), and let XP find them again on startup.
>
> But XP keeps insisting, that I now have an empty 1.2 GB drive, where I
> used to have a 250 GB drive with lots of data on it.
>
> Where is the information stored, that makes my PC believe, that it has
> a 1.2. GB drive connected?
>