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My computer was working perfectly, with two FDDs ...

My computer was working perfectly, with two FDDs, two HDDs a CDROM and a DVD drive.

I loaded some camcorder software and it insisted on rebooting. Since then I have had several problems.

I got a message saying "reconfigure your standalone slave drive as master" then "undetected" messages about one or more of Primary slave and secondary master and slave. If I disconnect the primary slave it sometimes works "it is now" but without one or more of Primary slave and secondary master and slave.

I have had similar problems several times recently. I fiddle with disconnecting an reconnecting everything and it work, but I don't know what I have done.  The last time I fitted a new HDD cable and it seemed OK.


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Make sure the jumpers on the physical drives match your Bios definitions. If these fit, Windows will usually do the rest of job perfectly fine by itself.

Posted 2007-07-17T13:51:37Z

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