XP hardware Configuration?

[Brutuswon]

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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[Trent©]

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

This part I don't understand. It almost seems like the BIOS is
reading for the drives twice. Did it always boot this way? Anyway,
this should have nothing to do with the operating system. So you
might have another problem.

Double check ALL your BIOS settings...especially the section that asks
you to declare what type of operating system yer runnin'...if your
BIOS gives you that option. Your BIOS settings may have changed for
some unknown reason...making it seem like the total problem is xp.

You didn't add/change any new hardware since 98...correct?

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.

Did you purposely install the phantom drive? Nero usually only
installs this drive if it can't find a writer to use. Maybe you have
an old version of Nero...that can't detect your newer dvd burner.
Check for updates for Nero...for a version that can see and write to
the dvd.

More...

I'd start by deleting the phantom drive...you don't need it. Then run
msconfig and remove anything that may be running that looks
fishy...and that you don't need. Make sure yer not running any
autoexec or config...unless you need them for some special reason.
Then reboot.

If you do finally get to see all the drives in xp, change the drive
letters. Make your pure reader the R drive(reader)...and yer burner
the W drive(writer). This will help prevent any front-end alphabet
conflicts...which may be your problem now.

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.

Something seems to be wrong here. If you always keep the removable WD
in the tray and turned on, the WD should be your D drive.

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

Do you have all your controllers set to AUTO in the BIOS?

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

It almost sounds like these are not turned on in the BIOS...hence the
error messages at the very top of your post.

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.

Check the BIOS settings for this also.

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.

Try some of the above...let us know.

Good luck.


Have a nice week...

Trent

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