Problem Finding Hard Drive Involving Cloning
- From: Jethro <Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:46:10 GMT
This sure seems strange to me.
I have two 120GB hard drives as Primary Master & Slave. I use the
latter to clone back-up the former. I found it worked fine as long as
I remembered to follow the cloning IMMEDIATELY with a boot-up from
the slave drive so it could initialize. I did this by changing the
boot sequence in the AMI BIOS V8.00.09 that I have so that I would
boot from the slave drive. Then I would reverse the booting back to
normal and both drives would be recognized properly by WXP PRO. If I
failed to do this extra step, I found that WXP would not recognize the
slave drive at all.
That has been fine, until now. I added a third 160GB hard drive as
Secondary Slave (my DVDRW drive is on Secondary Master).
It worked just fine. I decided to start cloning back-ups on that
third drive, and it went fine. Until I tried booting-up from it, as I
was doing before, that is. I am finding that I can boot-up fine from
that drive, but when I look at My Computer, the former boot-drive
(still on Primary Master) is not recognized at all! However, if I
revert back to the normal setup, and boot-up from Primary Master, all
is fine, and all three drives are recognized by My Computer. And in
fact, the clone target-drive looks okay content-wise as I guess it
should since it does boot-up okay.
So I am wondering why this is happening. I'm not sure it is hurting
me, but I think something might be wrong.
Help anyone?
Jethro
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