Go back to a restore point before you added everything.
When you added the new SATA drive, did you add it to a controller that you
hadn't used before?
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Charlie.
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"John Barnes" <jbarnes@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>A couple of days ago I took a SATA hard drive from another computer and
> installed it on this computer. I hot plugged it in and everything went
> well. Assigned G & L and showed up in Computer and was viewable in
> explorer normally.
> I decided I wanted to keep my hard drives sequentially lettered, so I
> changed L to the next available letter, took H-K and moved them down 1
> letter and changed the temp letter to H (all in Disk Management). Still
> everything showed up okay in Computer, Disk Management and Device Manager.
> Now for the problem.
> Next reboot the computer said it had to install new drivers. I let each
> of
> the two iterations find the appropriate driver, after which it had to
> reboot. After the reboot the drive failed to show up in Computer or Disk
> Management, it showed up as other devices in Device Manager. The next
> reboot asked for drivers again, but this time both iterations failed to
> find
> drivers. The solution offered was to download KB940199 which I did and it
> would not install. I checked to see installed updates and see I installed
> it on 1/1/2008. Next reboot asked for the drivers again and this time I
> clicked not to offer the New Hardware Wizard again for this device for
> both
> iterations (still just one drive). Next reboot failed on hardware failure
> 0x0000007b. I booted with last known good, successfully, but now asks for
> drivers again.
> Short story, now I either have to select ask again and go thru this each
> time the machine boots since every time I select Don't Ask the hardware
> crash occurs.
> It makes no difference whether the drive is connected or not. With it
> connected I get the drive shown in Other Devices with the driver not
> installed. If I change to another SATA HD, It still lists the original
> hard
> drive number, not the new one.
>