Also, if he is running an NVidia based board, some MS drivers from Windows
Update might have got into his system causing the problem.
MS Nvidia drivers are always faulty.
He should install NVidia official drivers if, then again, his mobo is NVidia
chipset based.
Carlos
"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
Quote:
> 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?
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel
>
>
> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23JhiV11oIHA.1240@xxxxxx Quote:
> >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.
> >
>