Seems complicated, but I'll try my best to explain. I was having some overheating problems, so I opened up the PC, sucked out the dust and rearranged my SATA and Power cables. Then when I booted my PC up, my BIOS HD Detection gave me a message of "No hard drives", yet the Windows XP boot screen came up. Strange, anyway, I logged into XP and noticed a few of my programs were missing icons. Upon further inspection, my E: drive was missing. I reopened the PC and tried fooling around with settings, making it a master to the D: drive on my secondary EIDE channel, and I'm still doing this to no avail. Any suggestions?
Kingsigy 0 Newbie Poster
shaval 0 Newbie Poster
I don't know if it is recomended to vaccum off dust inside a computer.
You have to be very careful with electrostatic discharge from your body and/or the brush you use to wipe out the dust. ESD can damage the electronic components inside your computer and you'll never know.
goldeagle2005 33 Finkus Stinkalotus Team Colleague
I'm guessing you have 2 drives: C: and D: on the SATA drive and E: on a regular IDE drive. Is that right?
Well, to be sure that no hard drive has conked off, you could try plugging in the drives one at a time and see if the drives are working. If they are, your cable is at fault.
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