Semi urgent i think, but it might not be, so be 1/2 alarmed

[[THANATOS].Teo]

Ok so as usual the reformat went 99% success and 1% fail. Everything was A.O.K earlier today, and then windows update did its thing all day and I now notice a hardware malfunction.

In device manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers

I have two of three base system devices showing the error exclamation

Now I only have 1 showing the error.

Any idea if i should be worried? Probably an easy fix but Dell.com is failing to help as usual even when I search by service code.

Ill post again if I fix it but any help is greatly appreciated!

cheers!
-Teo<br /><br />-- Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:36 pm --<br /><br />also, not sure if it helps, but i only have a single partition.

[[THANATOS].-Hades]

It seems your HDD's are having issues. Could be a cable problem or maybe the format fucked them up. Try using a disk partition software to format and also check under bios if your disks are being detected.

Another thing you can do is right click on My Computer and hit manage. Then check Disk Management and look at the status of each drive, etc.

[[THANATOS].Teo]

[THANATOS Wrote:.-Hades"]It seems your HDD's are having issues. Could be a cable problem or maybe the format fucked them up. Try using a disk partition software to format and also check under bios if your disks are being detected.

Another thing you can do is right click on My Computer and hit manage. Then check Disk Management and look at the status of each drive, etc.

cool, ill take a look at that stuff now i guess. any idea why this would happen?<br /><br />-- Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:50 pm --<br /><br />everything is reading ok in the manager. does everyone else have 3 base system devices? what are they dependent on?

[[THANATOS].-Hades]

Can you do a Print Screen and then upload the pic cause I'm having a hard time trying to understand the prob. (I've never had it before).

[[THANATOS].Metal]

If you don't have three drives, there's a detection issue. Try what Hades suggested, but be prepared to reformat again and start from scratch.

[[THANATOS].Teo]

[THANATOS Wrote:.Metal"]If you don't have three drives, there's a detection issue. Try what Hades suggested, but be prepared to reformat again and start from scratch.

i just have the one C drive and two usb D and E