I've moved some hard drives around and installed a cd-rw device in my Dell SC500 server machine. I always tried being careful to uninstall the devices with Win2K Server's Device Manager, but somehow it got screwed-up anyway.

Here's what it should look like:
PRIMARY 0 -- 80 GB HD operating system
Primary 1 -- 20 GB HD data
Secondary 0 -- 20 GB HD data
Secondary 1 -- CD-RW

Here's what happens at boot:
Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found
Secondary hard disk drive 0 failure

Enter CMOS and it looks like this (auto detect is selected for all):
Primary Drive 0 -- Hard Drive (all settings look right to me)
Primary Drive 1 -- Hard Drive (all settings look right to me)
Secondary Drive 0 -- Hard Drive (all settings look right to me)
Secondary Drive 1 -- Unknown Device (this should be the CD-RW)

In Windows 2000 Server's Device manager, these are SHOWN:
80 GB HD operating system (corresponds to Primary 0)
20 GB HD data (corresponds to Primary 1)
20 GB HD data (corresponds to Secondary 0)
No CD-RW is shown (would correspond to Secondary 1)

In Windows 2000 Server's Computer Management:
Disk 0 80 GB HD online (everything ok)
Disk 1 20 GB HD online (one volume is there, another is missing)
Disk 2 Foreign (no volumes shown)
Next row 20 GB HD (one volume failed)

As you can see, the PROFILE in Computer Management is just a mess. I had some mirroring between the two 20 GB drives, so that's causing problems too I suppose.

The info above is after having cleared the CMOS by removing the battery. I thought I could've started from scratch by doing that. But as you can see, there are failure messages at start and CMOS doesn't find the CD-RW. And in Windows 2000... What a mess!

I don't think my devices or cables are defective. I've checked all of that.

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to get this back to 'normal' again?

I'd REALLY appreciate some help with this.

P.