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It is odd - WinXP boots evertime, but sometimes the IDE drive doesn't show
in WinXP. So it is clearly a problem with the BIOS identifying
devices/drives during intial bootup - it always finds the SATA drive to
boot, but may or may not show the IDE drive in Windows - the only way to
correct is to go into the BIOS and tell it that the IDE is Drive 2 - for
some reason this BIOS setting changes on its own during initial startup.
I thought I may have read that there are some IDE advanced settings that can
be changed in the BIOS.
The system was built from scratch so there are no old configurations. I
installed XP and made sure all was working before I added the IDE drive.
Doug
"Jim Davis Nature Photography" <JBDavis@hkg.odn.ne.jp> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:25:41 -0700, "SpenserJ" <spenserj87@yahoo.com>
> wrote/replied to:
>
> >I have a new P4P800 with a SATA hard drive as my boot disk and an IDE
drive
> >on the Secondary IDE master. My CD/DVD Drive is on the Primary IDE
master.
> >I have no other drives. When I boot up the computer, the BIOS changes
the
> >IDE drive to Drive 1 - Windows XP still boots, but the IDE drive doesn't
> >show up in Windows. If I reboot, go into the BIOS settings, tell it that
> >the SATA drive is Drive 1, then exist, it boots fine. But next time I
boot,
> >it boots and WinXP loads, but the IDE drive doesn't show. Is there a
> >setting I can modify on the IDE drive settings so that it keeps this
> >identified as the 2nd hard drive? I've got the latest BIOS for the board
>
> Hmmm, big hmmm. Does it make the IDE drive 1, then load XP from the
> SATA drive, and all's well, but then when rebooting it reverts to the
> old BIOS setting. If so, you might try going back a BIOS. These
> settings should be kept. I don't think Windoze can influence BIOS
> settings like that, but maybe the boot loader is changed.
>
> Hopefully someone will give us the answers, cause I might want to add
> a SATA drive to mine one day too.
>
> One other thing to try might be this. First unplug any USB or CDrom
> drives or CF card readers etc from the computer. Boot and change your
> IDE to drive one, go to windoze. Check what drives are designated
> there. You should have drive C and D if both are single partitioned.
> If not, you've got more drive numbers. But windoze should have them
> both in the right order too. The boot drive can't be changed after
> windoze is installed, but you can designate all other drives to be
> whatever letters you want. I found this handy in the past. But the
> best way to do it is as I said remove all other devices that take a
> drive letter.
>
> After checking that, reboot and see if your problem is solved.
>
> If not, well, I'm out of guesses.
>
> If it's working now add one item at a time rebooting and making sure
> windows gets them all in the order you want them. Then you shouldn't
> have to designate them in windoze.
>
> A good thing to do during this process, is clean up your devices with
> a SAFEMODE boot and removing old hardware not being used anymore. You
> can easily add it later in any case.
>
> Most recent stuff does not need special drivers, XP handles most
> stuff really well. You should not update drivers until all is working,
> then only what is needed, like your video card.
>
> If you find something that upsets everything, maybe causes your old
> problem to come back, then you have found perhaps a device problem and
> might have to install them in a different order or upgrade it's driver
> first thing.
>
> good luck
>
>
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