D:\ is not accessible. The wrong diskette is in the drive. Insert (Volume Serial Number) into drive

[GeorgeB]

Error Message:
"(DriveLetter):\ is not accessible. The wrong diskette is in the
drive. Insert (Volume Serial Number) into drive (DriveLetter):\"


In January I bought a copy of XP-Pro SP2 and installed it on my
Computer that had been running Win2000 for the past 2 years.
For the next 2 months, I received the above error on 5 different HDs
along with general HD data corruption problems.
I searched the web and found that while not extremely common, this
problem does seem to happen too often. I tried everything that
was suggested plus all of the usual common sense stuff and nothing
really solved the problem. And as far as I know, MS never addressed
the problem. The only thing that could be done was to kiss your data
goodbye and reformat. All of the drives reformatted and worked except
for a Toshiba 180GB. It took over 24 hrs to format and will crash my
computer when I try to copy large files to it. I returned to
Win2000 in early March and have had no further problems.

I am now updating my development tools to VS 2005, SQL 2005 etc. I
would really like to run them on XP-Pro. But before I try it again,
can anyone update me on the status of this problem. From what I have
seen on the web currently, nothing has really changed. People
are still getting their HD's trashed ever so often and I am seeing the
same suggestions on dealing with it being recycled.

Any information or help on this problem will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Bob I]

Sounds like an issue with your motherboard and OEM drivers aren't XP SP2
compatible.