Ide Controller Drivers not loading

I have a Win98SE PC, fitted with 2 hardrives (1 x Primary
Master, 1 x Primary Slave) and a CD-Rom on Secondary
Prinary. This config has been working fine, until suddenly
the D: is not accesable in Windows. Device Manager shows a
yellow "!" on the IDE Controller, and it only shows one
hard drive, Also, everytime the pc is booted, scandisk
runs on D: and strangly, if I dissable scandisk, the D:
reappears and works perfectly, with now problems shown
under Device Manager.

Any suggestions - for the time being I've dissabled
scandisk from running, but I'm don't like doing this as
there must be a reason for it?

Hi Simon try disconnecting the drive and rebooting, then shutdown reconnect
the drive and rebooot. This might solve your problem.


"Simon" wrote in message
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I have a Win98SE PC, fitted with 2 hardrives (1 x Primary
Master, 1 x Primary Slave) and a CD-Rom on Secondary
Prinary. This config has been working fine, until suddenly
the D: is not accesable in Windows. Device Manager shows a
yellow "!" on the IDE Controller, and it only shows one
hard drive, Also, everytime the pc is booted, scandisk
runs on D: and strangly, if I dissable scandisk, the D:
reappears and works perfectly, with now problems shown
under Device Manager.

Any suggestions - for the time being I've dissabled
scandisk from running, but I'm don't like doing this as
there must be a reason for it?

Thanks Lee, but I've already tried that with no sucsess -
if you have any other ideas please let me know!


-----Original Message-----
Hi Simon try disconnecting the drive and rebooting, then
shutdown reconnect
the drive and rebooot. This might solve your problem.


"Simon" wrote in
message
...
I have a Win98SE PC, fitted with 2 hardrives (1 x
Primary
Master, 1 x Primary Slave) and a CD-Rom on Secondary
Prinary. This config has been working fine, until
suddenly
the D: is not accesable in Windows. Device Manager
shows a
yellow "!" on the IDE Controller, and it only shows one
hard drive, Also, everytime the pc is booted, scandisk
runs on D: and strangly, if I dissable scandisk, the D:
reappears and works perfectly, with now problems shown
under Device Manager.

Any suggestions - for the time being I've dissabled
scandisk from running, but I'm don't like doing this as
there must be a reason for it?



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Problematic ide cable
Power supply
Onboard hard drive ide controller (yes its onboard despite MS implying
otherwise)
"Simon" wrote in message
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Thanks Lee, but I've already tried that with no sucsess -
if you have any other ideas please let me know!


-----Original Message-----
Hi Simon try disconnecting the drive and rebooting, then
shutdown reconnect
the drive and rebooot. This might solve your problem.


"Simon" wrote in
message
...
I have a Win98SE PC, fitted with 2 hardrives (1 x
Primary
Master, 1 x Primary Slave) and a CD-Rom on Secondary
Prinary. This config has been working fine, until
suddenly
the D: is not accesable in Windows. Device Manager
shows a
yellow "!" on the IDE Controller, and it only shows one
hard drive, Also, everytime the pc is booted, scandisk
runs on D: and strangly, if I dissable scandisk, the D:
reappears and works perfectly, with now problems shown
under Device Manager.

Any suggestions - for the time being I've dissabled
scandisk from running, but I'm don't like doing this as
there must be a reason for it?



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