Hi, I have an intermittent problem with my hard drive setup.
I have 2 identical Seagate hard drives, and 2 identical ide cables connecting them to the motherboard. One a boot drive, the other just for storage.
The bios always detects them OK but every now and then the second storage drive isn't recognised by WindowsXP and says it's not formatted when I try to access it. If I switch it off and reboot, sometimes it takes a few tries, but it sorts itself and it'll work perfectly for days or weeks... then for no apparant reason it'll go again. I'm a bit worried it'll pack up all together at some point although the drive itself appears to be functioning OK, there's no errors or curruption after a failure.
Anything I can do to work out what the problem is? On the face of it there doesn't appear to be any pattern to it not working. Thankyou.