Hard Drive Snafu...Loosing hair fast
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Posted on Apr 05, 2004 09:42 pm
Walt
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer
Member Since: May 10, 2002
Sceerer-eeno-
XP Pro fully updated on Intel / Intel chipset 850mhz machine.
C:\ Fixed hard drive IDE1 Primary. Western digital with all OS and Program software.
D:\Music\ in tray as data disk. IDE2 Secondary.
All has been good for a couple of years or so:
Receive 80G WD as part of front fee for recording session. Remove D: and insert WD80. XP finds new hardware, I use provided disk to load driver. WD80 comes up all is good. Shut down put origional Data drive in, boot all is well. Go to return to WD80 and "error loading os" in very begining of OS load sequence. Origional HD still works fine. Change bios to boot from CD and both drives work ok fine if XP os disk is in cd. Boot from HD and only origional HD will allow OS to boot. Tried multiple config profiles and tried repairing XP, no change. Looked for info on Microslop central and got lost in gigo. Origional drive is Quntium FireballP... or some happy el-toro PooPoo like that.
Tried rogain... no results either.
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Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Apr 05, 2004 10:41 pm So let me get this straight, you left your main OS drive in and it boots without trouble. But with the other WD80 in it is having trouble booting to the main C drive?
Are you sure you dont have another OS loaded on the WD80 and somehow your bios is trying to boot to that? I know silly questions...
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 05, 2004 11:48 pm Not necessaraly a silly question. The WD80 installed in a very odd fashion per my experience. When it did install and run (I am avoiding saying installed correctly) XP recognized new hardware. XP did not ask for a driver however it did not show the WD80 in the explorer. The next step was to use the WD installation CD to install the drive. It gave a choice of "data" or "bootable" drive. I chose data. Then it asked about format, I chose NTFS. Now watching the drives as the puter comes out of bios and starts addressing OS it almost appears that the puter is addressing the WD80. You may very well be on to something here. I'll try faking a load using the XP disk, then formating the WD80 via dos command. Not a bad idea! Who knows what routine WD useds as an "install" prog.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 06, 2004 01:02 am No dice Amego! Same results. Will start with CD as first bood device and XP disk present, otherwise error loading os. Too wierd for me. The bios recognizes the drive just fine. I watched the lights on both hard drives when the Quntium is physicaly in D/music and they react the same as when the WD80 is in place. Only difference is when the Quntium is in place everything is honkey dorrey. Too wierd.. just too wierd. Time for bed....too wierd.
Apr 06, 2004 04:32 am Load the WD80 as a secondary drive and boot with the original, go into computer management in admin tools and see it you can see the drive in that screen. BIOS usually will see it, even if it's a bad drive, so the fact BIOS sees it matters little. If it can be seen by the computer management in XP it will also tell you if it's partitioned and formatted and how it's formatted (NTFS or FAT32) to verfiy it was done properly.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 06, 2004 10:01 am Yup dB it's all there! As long as I have the XP CD helping me out with the boot up all is good. Everything in the device manager is in order. The WD80 works real well too once the OS is loaded.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 06, 2004 10:14 am Oh no. Me thinks me be an idiot. I slept on it last light, (princess and the pea syndrom) and there was one thing in bios that I was unsure of. Could not remember for sure. The bios is set for floppy first, HDD1, CDD, from boot sequence. Just changed 2nd device to HDD0. It seems to be working. Forgot about the zero is one thing. Daaaaa
False alarm girls just had to brush off my dress.
Apr 06, 2004 10:16 am Thats really weird, in your first post you said IDE1 and that was a red flag for me, but figured you know what your doing so I left it alone...that'll teach me...
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 06, 2004 10:47 am Yup, one of those things that I don't use every day. It nagged me when I first saw it but I put it off per the original configuration working fine with that bios setting. The bios did not take exception to the config until I changed data drives. I am tempted to believe that it is because in the second configuration both os HDD and data HDD are WD. (don't you just love acrynimology) With the bios using drive switching to look for a boot maybe it got cornfused? Oh no! WD's there everywhere..there everywhere! Nothing like personifying the thing while musing.
Apr 06, 2004 10:48 am Of course, the fact it's a WD doesn't help matters...
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 06, 2004 10:53 am Amen!
Thanks! I'm sure posting and babbling about it was part of the fix. Good day! Got the pute fixed, new stove and fridge delivered and to work by noon! (or close)
GregorMember
Since: Jan 08, 2004
Apr 06, 2004 11:07 am What's wrong with WD hard drives?? It's all I buy now....never had a problem!
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
Apr 06, 2004 12:07 pm That's cool Gregor. And I can't complain a lot about them either. I had a problem with one firewire WD crashing early in it's lifespan but WD covered the problem and the replacement has been fine. WD can be a bit propriatory from time to time but notin real serious.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Apr 06, 2004 05:13 pm I only use them for back up so they arent spinning all the time. I prefer Seagate for my main drives that are on constantly. And the only reason I go with the WD is when it is really cheap.
