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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
A power cycle and cold boot cures many computer ills. I haven't had to actually unplug mine from the wall that often (and when I did, it was to wake up a flaky power supply) but a cold boot can be useful. It basically forces a fresh start on the whole "what's connected?" discovery process done by the BIOS during POST.
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right. i knew it was something like that. thanks dennis.
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I'm mumbling to myself now because of similar issues. I have multiple physical hard drives -- 8 total, 7 IDE and one SATA. After working fine for a bit, Win XP will suddenly decide one or more of the drives don't exist, sometimes having them disappear while the machine is up and running. The SATA drive is the one it normally happens to, with an older, smaller IDE drive the other usual suspect.
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dear god, that would drive me INSANE !!! i've only got 3 harddrives connected (one internal sata, 2 external ide) at the moment, but i use the external ones as backup and also daily-accessed storage so if they started blinking on and off i would probably end up throwing something through the window really soon.
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And I triple boot Win2K Pro, WinXP Pro, and Ubuntu 9.10. Ubuntu is installed on an ext3 partition on one of the drives. Every time I reboot, WinXP thinks that drive has a problem with the file system and must be checked. I thinks it's flustered by the non MS file system on the drive... 
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"oh noes ! it must be a virus !!"
