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   From: "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"    
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   Subject: Master/slave settings swtiched when powered off   
   Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:57:49 -0700   
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   Pardon the cross-posting.  win2000 newsgroup is practically dead.     
      
   What could have happened to cause this problem?    Master and slave drives were   
    switched without me doing anything.....   
      
   The system has Windows 2000 Prof.   Today I shut down powered down the system   
   as usual - Start > Shut down, etc.  The an hour later powered up.  When the   
   first screen came up, I noticed the slave drive mfr/model was listed as master   
   and vice versa.   I let it start up as normal, and the desktop was like when   
   first installed.  Opened Windows Explorer and  c: drive was in fact the former   
   slave.  Former master was now one of the other drive letters.  All the other   
   drives were there, but with different letters.   
      
   I also noticed something in the recycle bin - which is normally empty.  It has   
   a couple of backup folders that had been on the original master.  They were 1-2   
    GB each, and there's no way I would have deleted those accidentally.  If they   
   were deleted it would take a minute on this machine to go thru the deletion   
   process.   So I moved them back to a safe place on a drive.   
      
   Then I hit start > shutdown > restart.  Hit DEL and sure enough they were   
   showing up as being switched.  I set it up to manually set them back, rebooted   
   and all came up normally again.   
      
   Now all is back to normal.   
      
      
      
      
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