XP Pro + SCSI + IDE = Vile problems

[Guest]

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

 

[Alvin A Brown]

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

 

[Yves Leclerc]

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.

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??!

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

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.

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:

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.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

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.

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:

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.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the tips, I'm trolling through Adaptecs site.