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   Subject: Re: Master/slave settings swtiched when powered off   
   Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:02:40 -0700   
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   On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 09:57:49 -0700, "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"   
    wrote:   
      
   >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.   
   >   
      
   Beats me. It could be a drive controller on the MB going bad.  Could   
   be other things - lost setting in the BIOS.  When you hit DEL on   
   reboot it found the master again.   
      
   - check the cable on the drive, disconnect from the MB & drive and   
   connect it again   
      
   - Boot sector corruption on the drive?   
      
   - Do a virus scan   
      
   Run Belarc Advisor  a free product. Do the   
   definition update. Cut and paste the OS, Drives, Controllers & Virus   
   Protection parts of the report back here.   
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