My computer randomly locks up completely. When I push reset it starts to reboot, but then tells me I have no IDE drives at all. Then I shut off the power, wait a minute, and reboot and I have my drives back. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
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It's the Bios. The very first screen. It says Detecting IDE drives... and then says none on all four. At this point I turn it off completely and wait, turn it on again and there they are as usual. I gave up hope trying to find out and did a format on drive C and reinstalled Windows. I had my drive partitioned into two parts and put all my data on drive D. Then formatting only drive C. It worked. I would still be interested in any theorys on this however.
I have no idea why it happened, but there is a bios setting to 'find' ide drives, which saves the settings to cmos so it doesn't have to find the hard drives every time you turn on the computer. NB cdroms will probably still be searched for.
Suspect that it is a bios problem in that hot boot isn't forcing a track 0 seek.
Cold boot may or may not be forcing one, doesn't matter since the hard drive does one automatically after it spins up. Ed Fair
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Cold boot may or may not be forcing one, doesn't matter since the hard drive does one automatically after it spins up. Ed Fair
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