removable hard drives

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Jeff C

I have posted this question twice. One was never answered,
and one never posted.
How do you configure a removable hard drive (hotswap
drive) with windows xp home so the computer does not lock
up. Either during boot, or while windows is running when
the drive is removed.
Jeff
 
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I have posted this question twice. One was never answered,
and one never posted.
How do you configure a removable hard drive (hotswap
drive) with windows xp home so the computer does not lock
up. Either during boot, or while windows is running when
the drive is removed.
Jeff
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Hey Jeff I think I am having a similar problem with XP. I
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build a new computer but want to keep my hold hard drive
and I am having a hell of a time getting XP to start on
the 2nd mother board. I've been reading around about
changing the boot.ini file and using the recovery console
but my problem is still just that, a unsolved problem.
Here are the articles I have been reading, maybe they'll
help you.

and of course if anyone could help me out that'd be great.

Flycat

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 289022
HOW TO: Edit the Boot.ini File in Windows XP

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 314477
Error Message: Windows Could Not Start Because of a
Computer Disk Hardware Configuration Problem

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 307654
HOW TO: Install and Use the Recovery Console in Windows XP

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 102873
BOOT.INI and ARC Path Naming Conventions and Usage
 
Hi, Jeff.

I see two other posts by you, but no responses to them or to this one before
mine. The first was at 6:41 am (CST) yesterday, 7/28; the second was 6:20
am today, 7/29; and this third one is at 8:27 am, just 2 hours after the
previous one and just over 24 hours from the first one. Please, cut us some
slack! ;^{

This is NOT Microsoft Tech Support. Even though you got here through the
Web-based interface labeled "Communities", you are in a peer-to-peer
newsgroup. In other words, we are just users like you. Some of us might
know about removable hard drives, but maybe not. Even if there are experts
here, they may be taking a coffee break - or on vacation - or busy trying to
help others - or working their real jobs. After all, we are NOT on the MS
payroll.

Now, about your hard drives, the answer to your question is...I don't know.
Removable HDs come in many shapes and sizes with many interfaces and using
many different drivers. For example, I used SyQuest removable cartridge
drives from about 1985 to the late 1990s when SyQuest went bankrupt. Mine
were always internal SCSI drives, so I couldn't even help other SyQuest
users who had IDE or parallel port interfaces, much less whatever brand name
you may be using - which you didn't mention.

Have you been to the drive maker's website? What does it say on their Tech
Support page?

If you will include such basic information as the make and model of your
drives, and the interface they use to connect to your computer, and maybe
even a basic description of your computer (Make and model? IDE controller?
Does it use SCSI? Internal or External? BIOS version?), then somebody here
might recognize it and have some good suggestions for you. Without that
information, we would just be shooting in the dark - so we might pass up
your post and go on to help someone who gives us more to go on.

If you really do need MS support, then just click Tools | Online Support.

RC
 
Can't do it.

See; Programming of Transfer Mode Speed Is Not Supported by Atapi.sys When You Hot or Warm Swap Drives http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323760 HTH.

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Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| I have posted this question twice. One was never answered,
| and one never posted.
| How do you configure a removable hard drive (hotswap
| drive) with windows xp home so the computer does not lock
| up. Either during boot, or while windows is running when
| the drive is removed.
| Jeff
 
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