2nd hard drive hangs XP unless disabled

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2nd hard drive hangs XP unless disabled

I added a 2nd hard drive - Seagate 7200.7 200GB IDE as a SLAVE to an
NF7 yesterday. Well XP booted up, I created a basic disk primary
partition and quick formatted NTFS - dne this manytimes over the
years.

Reboot and immediately after post a blank black screen. I can get to
the XP boot menu but any choice after yield the same.

Well, I went into the bios and selected this drive and turned
off(instead of auto) the selection for "Primary Slave drive" - this
allowed XP to boot, and XP even detected the drive, though the Nvidia
IDE properties set its performance to DMA 2 because it was using the
bios settings. I was able to switch it to a faster mode - but only
Ultra DMA 5.

In any case, I find this odd. I have to disable this drive in the
bios to get it to work?

BTW, the master drive is a Maxtor set to Ultra DMA 6

Any ideas of the issue?
 
John Munsey Jr said:
2nd hard drive hangs XP unless disabled

I added a 2nd hard drive - Seagate 7200.7 200GB IDE as a SLAVE to an
NF7 yesterday. Well XP booted up, I created a basic disk primary
partition and quick formatted NTFS - dne this manytimes over the
years.

Reboot and immediately after post a blank black screen. I can get to
the XP boot menu but any choice after yield the same.

Well, I went into the bios and selected this drive and turned
off(instead of auto) the selection for "Primary Slave drive" - this
allowed XP to boot, and XP even detected the drive, though the Nvidia
IDE properties set its performance to DMA 2 because it was using the
bios settings. I was able to switch it to a faster mode - but only
Ultra DMA 5.

In any case, I find this odd. I have to disable this drive in the
bios to get it to work?

BTW, the master drive is a Maxtor set to Ultra DMA 6

Any ideas of the issue?
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Do you have both drives set to CS (Cable Select)?
Mike.
 
Both set to CS did not matter. Configured drive as extended - no
difference.

XP hangs immediately - I can get to the XP boot menu thouhg by hitting
F8 but blank screen after this.
 
John Munsey Jr said:
Both set to CS did not matter.
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As expected.
It's not for nothing that Hawes couldn't answer the question.
Configured drive as extended - no difference.
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The cause must be looked for in the fact that the bios does add a device
number (and possibly drive letters) when the drive is included in bios.
Apparently this confuses Windows. Hopefully someone else knows how
to deal with that.
 
The cause must be looked for in the fact that the bios does add a device
number (and possibly drive letters) when the drive is included in bios.
Apparently this confuses Windows. Hopefully someone else knows how
to deal with that.
Click to expand...

This may be the answer. A long shot, but in this case I would go into
the system BIOS and load default settings across the board.

Worth a try - has worked for me before when all else failed.


Odie
 
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