i have 3 physical IDE drives (the primary [drive c], and a slave , plus
another as master on second channel + my DVD as the 4th ide device

on installing Vista ultimate , runs - but , but every so often , (maybe
every couple of days) , wil be 1/2 way thru doing something , and all the
drives (physical , and partition) , will all dissapear , except the c
(windows) drive , this doesnt seem to happen when i am doing anything in
particular , and sometimes happens when the drive is actual being used , i.e
1/2 way thru burning a DVD , the dvd drive will just "dissapear" causing
nero to crash , i have also experinecen it many time when doing something
basic like dragging a file form one fdrive to another in explorer , 1/2 way
thru the copy dialog , an error will come up "cannot find file" , on
checking my computer , all drives have dissappaered except C - only a hard
reboot , will get them back, sometimes with errors , as i have to perform a
chkdisk. i have seen a few posts with comments about checking cabling on the
drives , has anyone else experienced this problem

seems a bit of a shame that im not using vista , not because of the
lack of software - but because basic i/o is falling over

ta