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March 16th 07, 08:46 PM
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Disappearing Hard Drive
I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine,
both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista OS. The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both drives. The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the Device Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this? -- willic 
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March 16th 07, 09:19 PM
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Disappearing Hard Drive
"willic" wrote in message
... I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine, both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista OS. The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both drives. The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the Device Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this? -- willic There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up as a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset) motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? Crimliar
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March 16th 07, 10:40 PM
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Disappearing Hard Drive
You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you?
No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI chipset. It looks like this is a driver problem. -- willic "CrimLiar" wrote: "willic" wrote in message ... I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine, both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista OS. The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both drives. The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the Device Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this? -- willic There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up as a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset) motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? Crimliar
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March 17th 07, 04:03 AM
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Disappearing Hard Drive
No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem....
"willic" wrote in message ... You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI chipset. It looks like this is a driver problem. -- willic "CrimLiar" wrote: "willic" wrote in message ... I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine, both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista OS. The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both drives. The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the Device Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this? -- willic There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up as a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset) motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? Crimliar
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March 17th 07, 05:10 AM
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Disappearing Hard Drive
No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem....
It could be related to Compaq's mickey mouse way of partitioning the first drive but I doubt it. Why is this not a problem with XP Pro and why does it not happen with a cold boot? Something must be remaining loaded with a reboot that is not there with a cold boot. -- willic "keith schaefer" wrote: No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem.... "willic" wrote in message ... You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI chipset. It looks like this is a driver problem. -- willic "CrimLiar" wrote: "willic" wrote in message ... I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine, both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista OS. The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both drives. The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the Device Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this? -- willic There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up as a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset) motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? Crimliar
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March 18th 07, 09:14 AM
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On Mar 17, 6:10 am, willic wrote:
No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem.... It could be related to Compaq's mickey mouse way of partitioning the first drive but I doubt it. Why is this not a problem with XP Pro and why does it not happen with a cold boot? Something must be remaining loaded with a reboot that is not there with a cold boot. -- willic "keith schaefer" wrote: No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem.... "willic" wrote in message ... You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI chipset. It looks like this is a driver problem. -- willic "CrimLiar" wrote: "willic" wrote in message ... I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine, both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista OS. The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both drives. The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the Device Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears. Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this? -- willic There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up as a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset) motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? Crimliar- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - There's someone else (and me) having this problem he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...39b7c64a695639 George
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