"Found New Hardware" - slave HD everytime PC Boots

[Ryan]

I recently added a 160gig hard drive as a slave to my
current system. Now everytime my PC boots, Windows XP
Home "finds new hardware" but cannot drivers were not
properly loaded. The drive IS accessible, but the
repeating message is very annoying...HELP!

Pentium 4-2.0
1 GIG RAM
Master 0 - 60 GIG hard drive
Slave 0 - 160 GIG hard drive
Master 1 - CD-RW
Slave 1 - DVD-RW

 

[Guest]

No drivers should be required for your IDE hard drive

You may find amore effective use of the performance of your system is to reonfigure

Master 1 - 60Gb IDE HD
Slave 1 - CD-R
Master 2 - 120Gb IDE HD
Slave 2 - DVD-R

It will give better hard disk performanc

Use the 120Gb Drive to store temporary data that you choose to burn to Optical disks. If you do a lot of DVD backup then switch it to Slave 1 and make CD-RW Slave 2

This mayt also help overcome any issues with the devices being recognised a new each time you boot.

 

[Bill Larcombe]

No drivers should be required for your IDE hard drive.

You may find amore effective use of the performance of your system is to
reonfigure:

Master 1 - 60Gb IDE HDD
Slave 1 - CD-RW
Master 2 - 120Gb IDE HDD
Slave 2 - DVD-RW

It will give better hard disk performance

Use the 120Gb Drive to store temporary data that you choose to burn to
Optical disks. If you do a lot of DVD backup then switch it to Slave 1
and make CD-RW Slave 2.

This mayt also help overcome any issues with the devices being recognised
a new each time you boot.

Won't that just leave the primary HDD running at ATA33 by being connected to
the same channel as the HDD (assuming this is ATA66 or above)? FWIW I've got
2 120 GB HDD's on the primary IDE channel and a DVD ROM & CDRW on the
secondary channel and I've not encountered any problems with this
arrangement.

However, I always stand to be corrected if there's a better way of doing
things ;o)

BillL