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December 1st, 2008 04:00
Master H/Drive & Slave Drive Problems
Hi,
I have a Dimension 3100, OS XP Home. My Dimension has 160Gb H/D, I have installed a 180Gb IDE Slave Drive.
Dimension free space 115Gb, Slave Drive free space 91Gb.
Last night I defragged both drives, switched it off. Upon start up this morning it took 16 mins to start & load Windows for use. To access My Computer Folder and subsequently the Slave Drive took over 20 mins before I aborted. Every function has slowed to a near stop. I have removed the Slave Drive from the Boot Up Sequence and can function normally with the O/S.
I need daily access to the files on the Slave Drive. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Thanks in advance for any help, Martin
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Davet50
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December 1st, 2008 06:00
Try this
Open device manager. Click on the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers line
Select the primary channel and secondary channels right click on each and select properties. on the popup window select the adavance tab.
Make sure the following lines are set
Transfer mode: DMA if availiable
Device type: Autodetect
transfer mode" DMA if available
martin1967
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December 2nd, 2008 04:00
Hi Dave,
Thanks for taking the time to answer. All the settings you suggest were already selected. Much appreciated though.
Martin
martin1967
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December 2nd, 2008 05:00
I have developed a further problem to the above post. My PC opened Windows and recognised the Slave Drive. Whilst working with some of the files Windows said 'Write Delay has occurred' and the slave drive suddenly disappeared. Upon rebooting the PC checked the slave drive for consistency. The file verification completed and moved onto Verifying indexes. At 28% it then scrolled through all 22,000+ files saying 'File record segment is unreadable'. Any help would be appreciated.
I was wondering whether using the Dell Operating System Disk would reinstall Windows XP and then recognise the Slave Drive then. I'm not technically gifted as you can see, so that may not be a good idea.
Thanks for reading, Martin.
Hanspuppa
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December 2nd, 2008 07:00
Hello martin1967, It seems like you may have an issue with the added slave drive. You didn't mention where you got this drive, or what software is on the drive.
If it has an OS previously installed, you could have an issue with it, due to this.
If there is an OS already on the drive, I would delete the Windows folder from the drive. That would leave all the other data intact.
I would attempt to acquire the manufacturer's drive software and let it check the state of the drive.
The drive may have some issues itself, but may just be software corruption.
The manufacturer's drive software can determine if the drive is free of defects.
I would assure myself that there are no hardware issues with the drive before doing anything further.
Hope this helps.