Disappearing Hard Drive

willic · External Since: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 3

I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine,
both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista OS.
The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into
either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the
second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both drives.

The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the
default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the Device
Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears.

Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this?
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willic

CrimLiar · External Since: Mar 04, 2007 Posts: 20

"willic" <willic.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4F492D29-C221-44EF-A8B8-E5224D8AE77F@microsoft.com...
>I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine,
> both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista
> OS.
> The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into
> either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the
> second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both
> drives.
>
> The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the
> default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the
> Device
> Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears.
>
> Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this?
> --
> willic

There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up as
a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset)
motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but
warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using a
680i based mobo too would you?

Crimliar

willic · External Since: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 3

> You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? <

No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI
chipset.

It looks like this is a driver problem.

--
willic

"CrimLiar" wrote:

> "willic" <willic RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4F492D29-C221-44EF-A8B8-E5224D8AE77F@microsoft.com...
> >I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my machine,
> > both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the Vista
> > OS.
> > The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot into
> > either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on the
> > second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both
> > drives.
> >
> > The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the
> > default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the
> > Device
> > Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive reappears.
> >
> > Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this?
> > --
> > willic
>
>
> There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up as
> a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset)
> motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but
> warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using a
> 680i based mobo too would you?
>
> Crimliar
>
>

keith schaefer · External Since: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 6

No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem....

"willic" <willic.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AFB46AD3-D172-4AA9-84BF-62567B854215@microsoft.com...
>> You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? <
>
> No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI
> chipset.
>
> It looks like this is a driver problem.
>
> --
> willic
>
>
> "CrimLiar" wrote:
>
>> "willic" <willic.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4F492D29-C221-44EF-A8B8-E5224D8AE77F@microsoft.com...
>> >I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my
>> >machine,
>> > both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the
>> > Vista
>> > OS.
>> > The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot
>> > into
>> > either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on
>> > the
>> > second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both
>> > drives.
>> >
>> > The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the
>> > default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the
>> > Device
>> > Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive
>> > reappears.
>> >
>> > Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this?
>> > --
>> > willic
>>
>>
>> There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up
>> as
>> a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset)
>> motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but
>> warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using
>> a
>> 680i based mobo too would you?
>>
>> Crimliar
>>
>>

willic · External Since: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 3

> No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem.... <

It could be related to Compaq's mickey mouse way of partitioning the first
drive but I doubt it. Why is this not a problem with XP Pro and why does it
not happen with a cold boot?

Something must be remaining loaded with a reboot that is not there with a
cold boot.

--
willic

"keith schaefer" wrote:

> No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem....
>
> "willic" <willic.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AFB46AD3-D172-4AA9-84BF-62567B854215@microsoft.com...
> >> You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? <
> >
> > No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI
> > chipset.
> >
> > It looks like this is a driver problem.
> >
> > --
> > willic
> >
> >
> > "CrimLiar" wrote:
> >
> >> "willic" <willic.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4F492D29-C221-44EF-A8B8-E5224D8AE77F@microsoft.com...
> >> >I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my
> >> >machine,
> >> > both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the
> >> > Vista
> >> > OS.
> >> > The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot
> >> > into
> >> > either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on
> >> > the
> >> > second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both
> >> > drives.
> >> >
> >> > The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the
> >> > default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the
> >> > Device
> >> > Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive
> >> > reappears.
> >> >
> >> > Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this?
> >> > --
> >> > willic
> >>
> >>
> >> There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up
> >> as
> >> a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset)
> >> motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but
> >> warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using
> >> a
> >> 680i based mobo too would you?
> >>
> >> Crimliar
> >>
> >>
>
>

George · External Since: Mar 16, 2007 Posts: 3

On Mar 17, 6:10 am, willic <wil....TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem.... <
>
> It could be related to Compaq's mickey mouse way of partitioning the first
> drive but I doubt it. Why is this not a problem with XP Pro and why does it
> not happen with a cold boot?
>
> Something must be remaining loaded with a reboot that is not there with a
> cold boot.
>
> --
> willic
>
>
>
> "keith schaefer" wrote:
> > No, I think it is a COMPAQ problem....
>
> > "willic" <wil....TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >news:AFB46AD3-D172-4AA9-84BF-62567B854215@microsoft.com...
> > >> You wouldn't by any chance be using a 680i based mobo too would you? <
>
> > > No. This is a Compaq Presario SR2044X with an ECS motherboard and ATI
> > > chipset.
>
> > > It looks like this is a driver problem.
>
> > > --
> > > willic
>
> > > "CrimLiar" wrote:
>
> > >> "willic" <wil....TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > >>news:4F492D29-C221-44EF-A8B8-E5224D8AE77F@microsoft.com...
> > >> >I recently installed Vista Home Premium. I have two drives in my
> > >> >machine,
> > >> > both Seagate SATA2. The first is a 200 gb drive that contains the
> > >> > Vista
> > >> > OS.
> > >> > The second is a 320 gb drive which has XP Pro. I can initially boot
> > >> > into
> > >> > either system, or I can reboot from Vista into XP Pro, the system on
> > >> > the
> > >> > second drive, without difficulty. From XP Pro I can always read both
> > >> > drives.
>
> > >> > The problem is that if I am running Vista and reboot into Vista (the
> > >> > default), my second drive disappears. It does not even appear on the
> > >> > Device
> > >> > Manager or Disk Management. If I cold boot, the second drive
> > >> > reappears.
>
> > >> > Does anyone have a clue as to what could be causing this?
> > >> > --
> > >> > willic
>
> > >> There could be an issue here.... I have 4x500G Seagate SATA HDDs set up
> > >> as
> > >> a 0+1 Raid configuration on an ASUS P5N32-E Sli (nVidia 680i chipset)
> > >> motherboard. On coldbooting it finds the HDDs in under 2 secs, but
> > >> warmbooting it takes about 10 secs. You wouldn't by any chance be using
> > >> a
> > >> 680i based mobo too would you?
>
> > >> Crimliar- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

There's someone else (and me) having this problem here:
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware...vices/b

George