XP Configuration

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Bob Brodis

Alright. Here's the problem. When I was running Windows 98 SE, I had
(physically) installed two hard drives (1) a seagate 40 GB on C:\
drive (configured as the Primary Master), and (2) a Western Digital
40GB on a removable drive (configured as the Secondary Slave). I also
had an NEC DVD+RW (configured as the Secondary Master) and a DVD set
up as the Primary Slave. This worked. I could swap disks from my
removable drive at will. They were seen by the BIOS, in the Control
Panel and in explorer.

I installed Windows XP. Now when I boot up, the BIOS sees all 4
devices, although immeadiately afterwards I get a screen that looks
like:

"IT8212 BIOS V1.2 F/W VER. 020
Copyright 2002 ITE, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Please wait for IDE scan ..


Drive 0: Not Detected
Drive 1: Not Detected
Drive 2: Not Detected
Drive 3: Not Detected

Press <ctrl-F> or <Ctrl-E> to enter Setup Utility or
Press <Esc> to continue booting ..."

Once booted and logged in, if i go to my computer I can see my
C:\Drive, my DVD-RW on D:\Drive and a vertual drive I created by clone
CD configured as (F:). Notice the absence of both slave drives.

In Window 98, my next move would be to go to control
panel/system/device manager and check the properties for disk drives,
CD-Rom drives and IDE controllers.

I did the next best think in XP (Control Panel/System/Harware/Device
Manager and checked:

A) Disk drives; which shows both hard drives as working
properly (although in volumes the removable drive is listed as "Disk
1" and "Basic", after the volume lable There is no drive letter.

B) DVD/CD-Rom Drives; which shows both an NEC DVD-RW ND100A
on (D:\) and an elby DVD-Rom SCS1 which is listed in volumes as CD-
ROM1. After teh volume lable there is no drive letter.

C) IDE/ata/atap1 controllers
There seem to be three (?)
1) Primary IDE channel sais it's working but under
device 0/device type, auto detection is greyed out

2) Secondary IDE channel sais it's working but under
device 0 and device 1, auto detection is greyed out.

3) I then have a S.S PCI IDE controller that reports
it's working properly but has no devices attached and no
advanced settings.


D) SCSI and Raid controllers ok, I checked here and found
Windows found and ITE ATA RAid controller. I don't know where it
came from and don't care. I disabled the device (until I find out if
I'll break something without it) and rebooted.

I'm getting the same results. Fooling around with those harware
wizards has been fruitless. HELP!!


Again, my goal is to beable to see and access all my drives. Thanks.


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Alright. Here's the problem. When I was running Windows 98 SE, I had
(physically) installed two hard drives (1) a seagate 40 GB on C:\
drive (configured as the Primary Master), and (2) a Western Digital
40GB on a removable drive (configured as the Secondary Slave). I also
had an NEC DVD+RW (configured as the Secondary Master) and a DVD set
up as the Primary Slave. This worked. I could swap disks from my
removable drive at will. They were seen by the BIOS, in the Control
Panel and in explorer.

I installed Windows XP. Now when I boot up, the BIOS sees all 4
devices, although immeadiately afterwards I get a screen that looks
like:

"IT8212 BIOS V1.2 F/W VER. 020
Copyright 2002 ITE, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Please wait for IDE scan ..


Drive 0: Not Detected
Drive 1: Not Detected
Drive 2: Not Detected
Drive 3: Not Detected

Press <ctrl-F> or <Ctrl-E> to enter Setup Utility or
Press <Esc> to continue booting ..."

Once booted and logged in, if i go to my computer I can see my
C:\Drive, my DVD-RW on D:\Drive and a vertual drive I created by clone
CD configured as (F:). Notice the absence of both slave drives.

In Window 98, my next move would be to go to control
panel/system/device manager and check the properties for disk drives,
CD-Rom drives and IDE controllers.

I did the next best think in XP (Control Panel/System/Harware/Device
Manager and checked:

A) Disk drives; which shows both hard drives as working
properly (although in volumes the removable drive is listed as "Disk
1" and "Basic", after the volume lable There is no drive letter.

B) DVD/CD-Rom Drives; which shows both an NEC DVD-RW ND100A
on (D:\) and an elby DVD-Rom SCS1 which is listed in volumes as CD-
ROM1. After teh volume lable there is no drive letter.

C) IDE/ata/atap1 controllers
There seem to be three (?)
1) Primary IDE channel sais it's working but under
device 0/device type, auto detection is greyed out

2) Secondary IDE channel sais it's working but under
device 0 and device 1, auto detection is greyed out.

3) I then have a S.S PCI IDE controller that reports
it's working properly but has no devices attached and no
advanced settings.


D) SCSI and Raid controllers ok, I checked here and found
Windows found and ITE ATA RAid controller. I don't know where it
came from and don't care. I disabled the device (until I find out if
I'll break something without it) and rebooted.

I'm getting the same results. Fooling around with those harware
wizards has been fruitless. HELP!!


Again, my goal is to beable to see and access all my drives. Thanks.
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Suggestions:

**Check your BIOS settings for IDE0 and IDE1. Use the setup screens to have
the drives redetected and save the "changes."

**If the notice about no drives detected continues during POST, look for
configuration settings in BIOS that allow an increase of time for the
detection process or for the drives to spin up. If no luck, check for a BIOS
update for your board.

**Why is XP detecting RAID/SCSI controllers? If there is an extra
controller on this board and you aren't using it, disable it in BIOS setup
or flip a switch on your system board.

**Sometimes virtual drive software will toss RAID/SCSI into the mix but
that shouldn't happen during POST. It wouldn't appear until the operating
system loaded the software created drives. I'm not familiar with the
virtual drive software you're using. May want to do some homework in
their technical support pages to see if there are any hints there for getting
this sorted.

**Another virtual drive point: I use Farstone's Virtual Drive on my Tablet
PC. If the virtual drives do not have the letters preceding the one used
for my dvd/cdrw drive, the "real" drive does not show up. By simply
changing the assigned letters of the virtual drives (which were intitially
*after* all drives), the physcial cdrom drive magically reappears. To
accomplish this, I had to delete the virtual drives first. Move the "real"
drive down the alphabet. Then add the virtual drives back. There may
be a similar issue with the virtual drive program that you're using.
 
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