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by eric.r.kinyon

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Im built a P4 3.2 on a asus P4c800 deluxe mobo with 2 WD IDE 200Gb HDD. The HDD's have 2 partitions on each(on IDE1). Master is C and D, slave is E and F. 50% of the time when it boots up it has all 4 HDD, the other 50% it only has the master C and D and E and F are not there. Any insight? Now when I boot up, and the HDD is not there, I go to "Add new hardware" and it scans, finds nothing, and I can select it from the list, click finish and the HDD shows up???

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by w2ktechman

There are a few things that can be tried. First, you check the pins for master/slave settings. Or just change them both to cable select.
Second I would look at placing the second drive on a seperate IDE controller, and see if the problem continues. Are the drives identical (manufacturer/model)? If not there may be a driver issue that could be resolved by a different controller.
Third, It may be the HDD controller board. In which case you should replace the HDD (unless you have other identical drives lying around to switch the board).

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