Fairuza
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First, the history.
Machine had three physical IDE drives onboard, until I stripped them out and did a fresh install of the O/S onto a virgin SATA drive.
These consisted of one primary master with the O.S. & program files - and two slaves for data storage. Can post specs later if necessary.
For the last few days, we've seen nothing but perfect performance with just this one SATA system/O.S. drive and nothing else.
With specific tasks for the old drives in mind, I have just replaced two of the old slaves.
This time, boot was slower than normal and an old visual glitch which occurred in the old configuration has reappeared. It's simply a a wide grey line which appears at the bottom of the screen(s) during the boot process. Something like a progress bar...
After boot up, the old drives are not visible in My Computer.
I believe they were formatted FAT32, whilst the new SATA is formatted NTFS (if that's any help?)
Have consulted the Device Manager. The IDE controllers are listed. Appears normal.
Have checked and double-checked integrity of all physical connections, both for power and IDE data cables.
The IDE drives run in series. The SATA is seperate (obviously!)
What could be wrong?
Machine had three physical IDE drives onboard, until I stripped them out and did a fresh install of the O/S onto a virgin SATA drive.
These consisted of one primary master with the O.S. & program files - and two slaves for data storage. Can post specs later if necessary.
For the last few days, we've seen nothing but perfect performance with just this one SATA system/O.S. drive and nothing else.
With specific tasks for the old drives in mind, I have just replaced two of the old slaves.
This time, boot was slower than normal and an old visual glitch which occurred in the old configuration has reappeared. It's simply a a wide grey line which appears at the bottom of the screen(s) during the boot process. Something like a progress bar...
After boot up, the old drives are not visible in My Computer.
I believe they were formatted FAT32, whilst the new SATA is formatted NTFS (if that's any help?)
Have consulted the Device Manager. The IDE controllers are listed. Appears normal.
Have checked and double-checked integrity of all physical connections, both for power and IDE data cables.
The IDE drives run in series. The SATA is seperate (obviously!)
What could be wrong?