Author: sethseth Date: Jul 3, 2008 07:20
i have a strange problem with xp and my additional drive i recently bought.
i was running vista for a while and just couldn't deal with it anymore so
decided to go back to xp.
i have the original 250gb drive and added a 1tb drive. when i installed xp
it saw the 1tb drive as D and worked fine. i started to install my drivers,
first with the latest nvidia drivers for my video. it installed fine, but
after the reboot i nearly freaked out when D was gone. it didn't see the
drive at all. subsequent reboots did not show the drive in device manager
at all. i started over again with fresh xp install and after it finished D
was there again. i installed sp3 and after the reboot, D was again gone. i
installed xp a third time and D was there. this time i did nothing except a
reboot and again D was gone.
one thing that's interesting, every time the system would boot after the
initial install finished and D wouldn't appear, the boot process took
excessively long (nearly 5 min). i can't make sense of it. if it was a
matter of xp never seeing the drive, i can see the possibility of a driver
isse, 48 bit lba support etc. but when the drive can't be seen after the
second boot following initial install, that doesn't make too much sense to
me (bios always sees the drive).
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