Slave drive suddenly disappeared

[bluegnu]

Hi

My PC has a master and a slave HDD, both IDE.

I recently installed Windows XP and everything was working fine.

Then my nephew dragged the slave drive (D: drive) onto the windows desktop. Ever since then neither Windows nor BIOS detects the drive.

I've unplugged all the connections and tried reinstalling it, but this has made no difference. Any ideas?

Is it purely coincidence that this happened as soon as my nephew dragged it onto the desktop?

cheers

B

 

[knporter]

Almost certainly a coincidence that the drive stopped working. I can not see anyway that creating a shortcut on a windows desktop could prevent the computer BIOS from seeing the drive. Have you tried going into the BIOS and having the motherboard re-detect your drives?

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[bluegnu]

Thanks knporter,

Yeah I tried getting the motherboard to redetect the hdd, but it wasn't having it.

I'm going to take it out and put it in a different PC and see if it works then. If not then I think I'll have my answer, I was just wondering (well hoping) that there might be another way.