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Originally posted by Belisarius That's odd, the BIOS shouldn't do that. Your drives might be on "Cable Select", which let's the BIOS assign master/slave. If you manually assign master and slave, it shouldn't flip. Since you have a second HD, move everything you need over to it, and wipe the primary clean.
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It's not a slave, as I understand it the HDs are Primary (Samsung 10GB) and Secondary (Maxtor 5GB) and they were set up for me a long while ago as a disability prevents me from getting to physical grips with my machine. If I may further clarify - Windows/Program Files are still on the Samsung, which is the larger disc, but now the machine calls it D: instead of C: ! I am loathe to try to switch the drive letters again as, if it worked, it would mean me having to correct a lot of paths again and I would never know when or if the BIOS would decide to hiccup again in the future and take me back to square one. (Also because the BIOS has in the past screwed up my E: and F: CD drives.) I'm in a sort of "better the devil you know and not out of the frying pan into the fire" situation! To take this cliche-mangling a stage further I'm looking for a means of "not taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut"
