Disappearing Hard Drive

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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 said:
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?
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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
 
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.
 
No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem....

willic said:
No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI
chipset.

It looks like this is a driver problem.
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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.
 
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