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NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:58:31 -0500
From: "Snuffy \"Hub Cap\" McKinney"

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Subject: Master/slave settings swtiched when powered off
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Pardon the cross-posting.  win2000 newsgroup is practically dead.  

What could have happened to cause this problem?    Master and slave drives were
 switched without me doing anything.....

The system has Windows 2000 Prof.   Today I shut down powered down the system
as usual - Start > Shut down, etc.  The an hour later powered up.  When the
first screen came up, I noticed the slave drive mfr/model was listed as master
and vice versa.   I let it start up as normal, and the desktop was like when
first installed.  Opened Windows Explorer and  c: drive was in fact the former
slave.  Former master was now one of the other drive letters.  All the other
drives were there, but with different letters.

I also noticed something in the recycle bin - which is normally empty.  It has
a couple of backup folders that had been on the original master.  They were 1-2
 GB each, and there's no way I would have deleted those accidentally.  If they
were deleted it would take a minute on this machine to go thru the deletion
process.   So I moved them back to a safe place on a drive.

Then I hit start > shutdown > restart.  Hit DEL and sure enough they were
showing up as being switched.  I set it up to manually set them back, rebooted
and all came up normally again.

Now all is back to normal.




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