Windows - bizarre disk behaviour
Some will doubtless recall my thread about cloning my IDE C drive onto a new SATA. Total success, and running fine since then EXCEPT for a niggling little power problem which I have had for about a year, and not been able to pin down - random 'poking' at the drive power leads would produce a spin down/up occasionally. Lived with it. Until this AM when it got quite bad. More 'active' poking. Aha! Two red wires which obviously had not been properly crimped for years came out of one adapter. No problem, out with trusty soldering iron and job done. Power up. Corrupt or missing hal.dll. I know what to do! Err I don't????
I have 2 SATA and 1 remaining IDE drive now. Windows OS was on SATA 'Drive 2' (third drive) part 1. Windows OS on Disk Manager STILL shows on 'Drive 2 part 1' but after much fiddling (and cursing) I find I now need to call 'Drive0 part1' in boot.ini to find the OS. Has anyone an explanation for how the Drive numbers do not now seem to correspond to the Drive Manager Drive numbers? Partition letters are all correct. Weird!
I should add that I had tried Recovery Console first to rewrite boot,ini but that could not even FIND the OS!