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Old December 14th 08, 04:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Stan Hilliard
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Default Multiple hard drives, unrecognized drives, unexpected change of boot priority.

My C: partition is one of three partitions on a RAID 0 array that
consists two 250G HDDs. I have two other 250G HDDs running
individually. When I replace HDD number 3 with a new (unformatted) 1TB
HDD the three partitions on the other individual HDD disappears from
Explorer and the 1TB drive does not show either.

Drive 1 (two physical drives in array), C:, E:, and G:
Drive 2: D:, F:, H:.
Drive 3: I:
CD/CDV: Z:

Two other unusual events might be a clue to this problem:

Clue 1) I enlarged the partition on drive 3 to 250G with Partition
Magic v8. When I rebooted, PM had caused a change in boot order. Had
to use DEL to enter BIOS to correct the boot order so drive 1 is
first. This has happened before with PM. When booting properly the
boot priorities a

SCSI-2 - 7Li_RAID
SCSI-1 - ST3250823AS
SCSI-0 - ST3250823AS
Bootable Add-in Cards

When the boot order is messed the RAID is on the third line.

Elsewhere in BIOS is:

First Boot Device: Floppy
Second Boot Device: CDROM
Third Boot Device: Hard Disk

Clue 2) During every normal boot-up the last text statement on the
screen prior to the windows startup screen is "Boot from CD".

Q1 - why can't I see the 1TB HDD and why does HDD #2 disappear from
Explorer when it is connected?

Q2 - Why would the boot order get messed when I reboot after using
Partition Magic to resize the partition I on drive 3?

Q3 - why would the boot-up screen say "Boot from CD"?

Advice will be appreciated,
Stan Hilliard

System: Windows XP SP2, home built computer, all drives are SATA, the
250G drives are Maxtor, the 1TB drive is Western Digital.
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