Further to my problems with Nortons and copying/cloning my HD, when I run CHKDSK, I get the message “Warning! F parameter not specified. Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.” I imagine this is my problem, as Nortons Ver 5’s error message is “NTFS Error: NTFS logfile has not been flushed (f1 = 0). Restart NT and then try again.”
Any suggestions on how I “specify” the F parameter or “flush” the NTFS logfile? I’ve cloned HDs with Nortons in the past without encountering this problem.
Another question, unrelated to my first. I have an ASUS A7V 133 motherboard. One of the features that sold me on this motherboard was its four IDE slots – two ATA 66 and two ATA 100 slots. When I first set the system up, the ATA 100 slots were accessible, but for some reason I can’t fathom, they’ve now gone dormant. I now can’t get the computer to recognise anything attached to the ATA 100 slots. I’ve updated the BIOS, but I still get the same message on boot up: “ATA 100 BIOS not loaded as no drivers attached”. (That might not be word perfect; I’m transcribing the message from memory.) This message comes up even when I’ve got a HD attached to the ATA 100 slot(s).
Not as big a problem as the F parameter, but as with most things-PC, I suspect the problem is fixibale with the smallest step – if only I knew what that step was.