removable drives

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i have 2 hard drives with xp on them. one though only small works fine.
the other (120gB ) will boot from cd or floppy but once xp is running all
removable disk drives are " not available ". fixed drives (slave hard drives
) are ok. it has not always been like this. does anyone have any ideas please?

 

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I have seen this where you needed to have the XPCD in the CD-Rom drive in
order to get the hard drive to boot. Turned out that a virus was infesting
the drive and would not let it boot correct.


"smerv" <smerv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:785CA734-4E97-4BF7-949D-A314D790F32D@microsoft.com...
>i have 2 hard drives with xp on them. one though only small works fine.
> the other (120gB ) will boot from cd or floppy but once xp is running all
> removable disk drives are " not available ". fixed drives (slave hard
> drives
> ) are ok. it has not always been like this. does anyone have any ideas
> please?
>

 

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the pc boots ok from the hard drive, everything works ok. it is just that 'a
drive' and cd drive are ' not accesible '

"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

> I have seen this where you needed to have the XPCD in the CD-Rom drive in
> order to get the hard drive to boot. Turned out that a virus was infesting
> the drive and would not let it boot correct.
>
>
> "smerv" <smerv@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:785CA734-4E97-4BF7-949D-A314D790F32D@microsoft.com...
> >i have 2 hard drives with xp on them. one though only small works fine.
> > the other (120gB ) will boot from cd or floppy but once xp is running all
> > removable disk drives are " not available ". fixed drives (slave hard
> > drives
> > ) are ok. it has not always been like this. does anyone have any ideas
> > please?
> >
>
>
>