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2,3 ide drives disappear
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 |