AGAIN! Re: Major Boot/IDE issues. Help Please!!!!

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Well, after clearing the CMOS, everything was working beautifully. I
even connected the second HD that's been sitting lonely and worthless in
my case because the BIOS wouldn't dectect it either.

I had 1 HD as Primary Master and my DVDRW as Primary Slave (both on same
cable, jumpers set, blah blah).
The other HD is connected as a secondary master.

Used my comp all last night, with some restarts even. Shut it off and
went to bed.

This morning, I boot it up, and the BIOS says, again:
Primary Master: CT#10.34 (or something close to that, but NOT what it
supposed to say).
Primary Slave: DVDRW Generic
Secondary Master: RT$90.23 (or something close to that, but NOT what it
supposed to say).

Again, hang on DMI Pool.

So, I restarted, but this time I put in the Boot CD I made last night
when trying to repair the mbr (which, by the way, did not work last
night. The command "sys c:" returned a "Unknown command" at the A:
command prompt. Thats why I chose to clear the CMOS). So, I put the
boot CD in, rebooted and suddenly my BIOS is correct! My computer BOOTS!
WTH did I do? Put the boot CD in? But it didn't go to the command
prompt!

Anyway, I get to WindowsXP, and try to access my second HD (labled F:),
but while Windows detects it, it won't let me access it. Furthermore, in
the HD properties, when I have windowns "populate" it, it tells me that
its the MBR!

What. The. Hell. Is. Going. On. With. My. Computer.




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