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Consistantly, over the past 4 months since the issue started, on cold boot I have all 4 drives, but on warm boot I loose the H: dirve.

I have check settings on all dirves; checked cables (exchanged etc.).

To determine if Windows is the cause, I booted to safe mode DOS prompt; same cold boot hard boot issue exist. Thus, Windows ruled out??

BIOS; checked everyting in BIOS settings; all Ok as far as I can determine. Tried Risk/non and SATA Yes and no; But not change in the warm boot hard boot issue.

I need suggestions. Please. I have tried many things over the past 4 months but nothing seems to resolve the issue.

Doug

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by Former member

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by older mycroft

What is the make / model of your computer?
What operating system are you running?
What size / type are your hard drives?
Are any of your HDs in a RAID array?
How are ALL these drives connected?
How many other drives, apart from HDs?

by Former member

What is the make / model of your computer? IBM Clone which I built about 3 years ago; Motherboard K8VGA-M; Award BIOS, updated

What operating system are you running? XP Pro with latest updates from Microsoft as of yesterday when the most recent one came through.

What size / type are your hard drives? All drives are NTSF; C: Maxtor 127 GB ; D: DVD/CD; E: DVD/CD; F: Maxtor 168 GB; G: Maxtor 189 GB; H: Maxtor 152 GB; I: Maxtor 151 GB; J: USB;Mybook; Western Digital: 465 GB; K: USB, Western Digital 74 GB.

Are any of your HDs in a RAID array? I am not sure how to answer; I have not done anyting to "array" the dirves; however by default RAID is turn on in BIOS; But wheather RAID is turned on or off the problem still exist.

How are ALL these drives connected?
Primary: C:/I: (partitioned) Master; F: Slave. Secondary: G: Master; H: Slave.

How many other drives, apart from HDs? See above.

Hope this helps; If you need more information afer digesting this data, please let me know.

Doug

by older mycroft

Sorry, that's out of my league.

Hopefully 'TheChas' will come along and contribute his wisdom.

Although I am wondering about your PSU...?

by Former member

WoW. I did not know there was a tetrabyte of space ! Nevertheless, it all worked happily together for 3 and 1/2 years.

Specifically, what is PSU?

I sure hope someone can help. Fixing a drive that has cross link problems with Norton is difficult because of the necessary reboot, or the automatic reboot (warm) when certain software or Microsoft updates come through. I am in an increasingly difficult and dangerous position.

Someone please help.

Can you refer/ask some other individual to examine my situation.

Doug

by climbamtn1

i had very similar issue with external hard drives attached via usb all the ide drives had no issue but some particularly one drive would disappear after a warm boot. my issue was the USB bus power was not enough for all the devices i had and the resolution was not a powered usb hub but rather just a limit to how many drives i could apply to the motherboard supplied USB slots, a pci usb card fixed my issue. not really an answer you were looking for but i suspect the PSU (power supply) may also be your issue being we both see all the drives after cold boot.

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