Right! I've had enough - I need help
Three weeks ago I installed an 500GB SATA HDD, all went well and had no problems untill now. I have my OS on an IDE HDD and only one SATA drive, so no RAD enabled.
Today I decided to go for a small upgrade(Large CPU cooler), everything went swimmingly and whilst in there I cable-tie'd everything nice and neat, a nice and neat job.
Problem, in order to get the cooler mounting bracket into the holes of the 775 mobo I had to remove the mobo completely, hence the hours spent tidying cables up etc(may as well), I was careful ,and every #five minutes or so I'd go over and grab the copper piping of my home heating as to release any static...so I don't think I messed up any components on the Mobo.
Now the SATA drive shows up in vista disk management as
not initialized and only 136GB in size, if I go properties/uninstall/reinstall it looses 10 GB each time! > ? , but in BIOS the SATA HDD shows as 500GB and the name is not as I remember it, also, sometimes it the name changes to "C WDWCASY_EN_CODE.bin4"
Linux, upon boot gives an error about 2.0 SATA HDD erno-16 or erno-19 iirc
Gparted complains of 2.0 SATA HDD name mismatch
I have tried switching SATA plugs and need to disable the drive in BIOS or the PC will not boot.
What on earth have I done
Yelp!