XP Pro + SCSI + IDE = Vile problems

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I upgraded my home PC from Me to XP Pro and have had nothing but restarts, crashes and finally no starts. I had an IBM SCSI for the C drive, and a WD 160GB IDE drive (D) that I dumped all my data on. When I installed XP, it did not recognize the file format of C (FAT32) so I formatted it in NTFS and installed XP. The IDE remained FAT32. After a week, the miserable thing wouldn't boot at all. I Started over. A week later; no boot. I swapped in a new Mainboard and again reformatted and installed XP on the SCSI (all my data is on the IDE). 1 hour later - restarts followed by notices that windows had recovered from a big problem. Now the CMOS is listing the SCSI as "D" but Windows is calling it "C"...WTF??
At least it boots. Am I missing something here? It seems that XP is not as friendly as M

Current CMOS Setup is Floppy/CD/SCS
Hardware is
IDE Primary: CD-RW / 160GB HD(FAT32 slave
IDE Second: CD-RW / Zip 250 (slave
SCSI: Adaptec 2940UW2 / 36GB (NTFS) IBM H
768 MB DDR210
Athalon 180
Albatron KX-440-8X Mainboar
 
Hello

Here is some good advice, don't upgrade from OS to another OS it's
always good to back=up your data and do a full and clean install,

Alvin
 
First: You should have installed the motherboard chipset drivers,
usually VIA 4in1 Hyperion driver (???).

Second: You should have been running the 160GB hard drive a master and
not slave. The CDRW is slowing down the IDE channel.

Third: Your boot sequence is VERY complicated since you have SCSI and
IDE hard drives. Adaptec knowledgebase had guidelines to help with this.
Windows does not like to combine SCSI/IDE hard drives.

Forth: Always make sure that you have the latest SCSI drivers.

Fifth: How could the CMOS list out the SCSI drive as D. The SCSI
adapter is not directly part of the motherboard, is it??

Y.

JPuddybuc said:
I upgraded my home PC from Me to XP Pro and have had nothing but restarts,
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crashes and finally no starts. I had an IBM SCSI for the C drive, and a WD
160GB IDE drive (D) that I dumped all my data on. When I installed XP, it
did not recognize the file format of C (FAT32) so I formatted it in NTFS and
installed XP. The IDE remained FAT32. After a week, the miserable thing
wouldn't boot at all. I Started over. A week later; no boot. I swapped in a
new Mainboard and again reformatted and installed XP on the SCSI (all my
data is on the IDE). 1 hour later - restarts followed by notices that
windows had recovered from a big problem. Now the CMOS is listing the SCSI
as "D" but Windows is calling it "C"...WTF??!
 
I did install the latest 4-in-1 drivers, will flip the CD/HD

During boot when the SCSI is recognized now it pops up as "D". I'm confused by this also, since XP calls it the "C" drive. Here's what it says: Press <CTRL+A For SCSI Select Utility> (80eh)
Then the XP screen comes up and loads. Never had this trouble in Me, so I am inclined to believe that this is an XP issue. I've been trying to determine if this problem is from Norton Anti-virus, A driver problem, Roxio 6.0, Mainboard, or the Zip drive, but all the info I can find says that the programs are safe on XP. I'm guessing now that XP does not like to boot from a SCSI if there is an IDE attached - but this seems like something Microsoft would have covered.
 
Check with Adaptec. I know that years ago, they had a knowledgebase
document descibing how to set a system to BOOT with a SCSI hard drive and a
ATAPI (IDE) hard drive.

Y.

JPuddybuc said:
I did install the latest 4-in-1 drivers, will flip the CD/HD.

During boot when the SCSI is recognized now it pops up as "D". I'm
Click to expand...
confused by this also, since XP calls it the "C" drive. Here's what it says:
Press said:
Then the XP screen comes up and loads. Never had this trouble in Me, so I
Click to expand...
am inclined to believe that this is an XP issue. I've been trying to
determine if this problem is from Norton Anti-virus, A driver problem, Roxio
6.0, Mainboard, or the Zip drive, but all the info I can find says that the
programs are safe on XP. I'm guessing now that XP does not like to boot from
a SCSI if there is an IDE attached - but this seems like something Microsoft
would have covered.
 
Also, it does not matter where XP is installed. Where XP find the Master
Boot Record (MBR), it seems that that drive becomes C:. The BIOS screen is
mis-leadin, since only XP start-up do you get drive letters.

Y.


JPuddybuc said:
I did install the latest 4-in-1 drivers, will flip the CD/HD.

During boot when the SCSI is recognized now it pops up as "D". I'm
Click to expand...
confused by this also, since XP calls it the "C" drive. Here's what it says:
Press said:
Then the XP screen comes up and loads. Never had this trouble in Me, so I
Click to expand...
am inclined to believe that this is an XP issue. I've been trying to
determine if this problem is from Norton Anti-virus, A driver problem, Roxio
6.0, Mainboard, or the Zip drive, but all the info I can find says that the
programs are safe on XP. I'm guessing now that XP does not like to boot from
a SCSI if there is an IDE attached - but this seems like something Microsoft
would have covered.
 
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