Whenever I change the place of an already recognized
drive on the IDE cable, be it the Primary or Secondary
Channel, Windows 2000 has to search for that dirve.
It finally finds it, but takes a full 15 seconds to go
through the "searching for IDE devices."
In checking the BIOS (selecting "pause" as soon as the
system comes on), I see that it has recogined the old and
it's new position, immediately. But once into post it's
like it has no clue where the drive is.
I've tried pulling the power, disconnecting the IDE cables
and power from the drives on that channel, but that didn't
help.
I tried reloading the cmos with fail safe defaults and
doing as above, but still no luck.
I tried the above with pulling the AC power, but still the
same.
I've tried uninstall the drives by the Control Panel.
Still no good.
Although the BIOS standard setting, optimal, tweaked,
finds the changed drive immediately (using "auto), there
is something happening when the system goes into full
POST, that it can no longer find it.
I know that W2k & XP retain the location of the drives as
it originally found them. But the "Starting Windows"
screen has not yet appeared.
I even tried clearing the CMOS.
Do, I need to reflash it?
I'm at a loss as to how to get the IDE device to
be "refound," without the system doing a long search for
it. This happens whether the drive is a HDD or CD.
It looks like KB 328624 talks about this but give no
solution, workaround, or anything other than stating the
problem.
Anyone have suggestions?
Bob T.
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