Re: HD Killed by SP2??

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From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 09/01/04 

Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 09:51:06 -0700

Greg S wrote:

> I have a PC with relatively up-to-date HW (1 y.o.) and
> WinXP Home. It has 2 hard drives on IDE channel 0; the
> boot drive is the master.
>
> When I installed SP2 and rebooted the PC, suddenly my
> slave drive (a 40GB WD) disappeared: I can't access it
> anymore. Restoring to an earlier state (pre-SP2) does not
> fix the problem. Is it just a bad coincidence or has
> anybody seen similar problems after installing SP2?
>
> Greg

Is the drive detected by the Bios? If not it's a problem with the drive.

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