Post-SP3 Blues - External Drives Stopped Working

[Michael Faklis]

Yep, it's the same problem. From reading your thread, it appears we all
have problems with Western Digital's My Books. Could it be that the "WD
SAM" driver is not working correctly?

- Michael Faklis

 

[paul]

This is definitely a Microsoft sp3 problem.

I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book attached
and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting. The
other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not reboot
if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive
can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and re
installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on.

 

[paul]

This is definitely a Microsoft sp3 problem.

I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book attached
and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting. The
other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not reboot
if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive
can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and re
installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on.

 

[paul]

This is definitely a Microsoft sp3 problem.

I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book attached
and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting. The
other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not reboot
if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive
can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and re
installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on.

 

[Thee Chicago Wolf]

I've been careful about the assigned drive letters, however the drives may

been first assigned a drive letter when firewire worked, and since then had
the same drive letter assigned when connected vi USB2.

Just curious but how new is your computer in terms of "years old"?

- Thee Chicago Wolf

 

[paul]

I may have found a solution that worked for me. After upgrading to XP sp3 my
computer would not boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, after
reading through countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on
Western digitals site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to
revert to an older version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the
uninstall directory on my C drive. Just replace this version with the version
SP3 installed and everything works now. I can restart my computer now with my
firewire drive plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems to
be working fine. Good luck

 

[paul]

I may have found a solution. After upgrading to XP sp3 my computer would not
boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, after reading through
countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on Western digitals
site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to revert to an older
version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the uninstall directory on my
C drive. Just replace this version with the version SP3 installed and
everything works now. I can restart my computer now with my firewire drive
plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems to be working
fine. Good luck

 

[paul]

"Just to add a data point: the PCs I have updated to SP3 have no difficulty
booting with Firewire disks attached, and allocating drive letters to them.
So this is not a consistent problem: there must be some other factor (apart
from the sbp2 driver) which triggers this issue."

I agree same with me. One computer no problem other identical computer
problem.