Lately my slave drive is not being recognized. I need to know what action I need to take to fix this. Slave drive has my Ghost image of my operating system and other important files...
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Lately my slave drive is not being recognized. I need to know what action I need to take to fix this. Slave drive has my Ghost image of my operating system and other important files...
Make sure that all of its connections are secure.
If they're ok and it's on the IDE 2 channel by itself, then make sure the IDE 2 controller is enabled in BIOS, and it has no problems in Device Manager.
If those are ok, then install a different known working IDE cable, and connect a different power lead to the HD.
If no luck, then run the diagnostics at the HD manuf's site, and/or see if the drive works in another system.
If it fails these, then it's probably bad.
Clarify.
Recognition failure during POST or Windows...