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Hi guys,
I've had a problem with our family computer for a while now and i finally sorted it out today. My query is more about how something so strange could have happened.
Basically The PC was turned on once and it claimed that two drives weren't found. I assumed they were the hard drives, but i continued to boot it anyway to see what would happen. The PC booted up fine and i looked in My Computer and the hard drive was there. I looked around and updated the driver for it just to be sure then restarted the PC.
From then onwards it then always said at startup "Drive 1 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-2" But when pressing F1 to continue it booted up fine and the hard drive was there and working.
Now I don't use the family PC much as I had a laptop and, since it appeared that there was no real problem i didn't rush to fix it. But I eventually sat down and rummaged around and discovered that the PC was infact claiming we had two hard drives, when I knew we only had one and that it just couldn't find the second one. I looked into this mysterious second drive it couldn't find and it was claiming that it's name was "HP Photosmart 7900 usb device"
We do have a couple of HP printers hooked up to this PC but not that model.
I populated it to double check and it had 0Mb space so i uninstalled it and disabled it in the boot menu so the PC wouldn't keep trying to find it and everything is fine.
My question is more about how it could have suddenly decided that we had a printer we don't own and how it decided that it was a hard drive connected to a SATA 2 port. It seems like a total mystery to me :S
Thanks for any possible theories
Bob
I've had a problem with our family computer for a while now and i finally sorted it out today. My query is more about how something so strange could have happened.
Basically The PC was turned on once and it claimed that two drives weren't found. I assumed they were the hard drives, but i continued to boot it anyway to see what would happen. The PC booted up fine and i looked in My Computer and the hard drive was there. I looked around and updated the driver for it just to be sure then restarted the PC.
From then onwards it then always said at startup "Drive 1 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-2" But when pressing F1 to continue it booted up fine and the hard drive was there and working.
Now I don't use the family PC much as I had a laptop and, since it appeared that there was no real problem i didn't rush to fix it. But I eventually sat down and rummaged around and discovered that the PC was infact claiming we had two hard drives, when I knew we only had one and that it just couldn't find the second one. I looked into this mysterious second drive it couldn't find and it was claiming that it's name was "HP Photosmart 7900 usb device"
We do have a couple of HP printers hooked up to this PC but not that model.
I populated it to double check and it had 0Mb space so i uninstalled it and disabled it in the boot menu so the PC wouldn't keep trying to find it and everything is fine.
My question is more about how it could have suddenly decided that we had a printer we don't own and how it decided that it was a hard drive connected to a SATA 2 port. It seems like a total mystery to me :S
Thanks for any possible theories
Bob
