I have two WD IDE HD's on my system, whenever Vista boots up, it does not
show the slave drive in the primary chain. I have to go device manager and
enable the drive and load the drivers...

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Am I the only one lucky enough to see this error?



Help please!

What does your BIOS say?
dotcom

"PBratton" <PBratton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2C87F9E7-1125-4051-9AF2-6F08321BB30D@microsoft.com...
>I have two WD IDE HD's on my system, whenever Vista boots up, it does not
> show the slave drive in the primary chain. I have to go device manager
> and
> enable the drive and load the drivers...
>
> Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
>
> Am I the only one lucky enough to see this error?
>
> Help please!

Bios shows the same as always: Master and Slave HD's and Master and Slave
DVD's.

I can see the drive in Device Manager. In fact, every time I reboot, the
system says that it has the load drivers for the Hard Drive... It loads the
Master drive up, but not the slave...

"dotcom" wrote:

> What does your BIOS say?
> dotcom
>
> "PBratton" <PBratton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2C87F9E7-1125-4051-9AF2-6F08321BB30D@microsoft.com...
> >I have two WD IDE HD's on my system, whenever Vista boots up, it does not
> > show the slave drive in the primary chain. I have to go device manager
> > and
> > enable the drive and load the drivers...
> >
> > Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
> >
> > Am I the only one lucky enough to see this error?
> >
> > Help please!
>

Bios shows both drives. When I reboot, Vista reports that it has the load
drivers for the Master HD but nothing for the slave HD. They are both WD,
the master is a 200GB, (WD2000JB) the slave is a 100GB (WD1000BB)...

"dotcom" wrote:

> What does your BIOS say?
> dotcom
>
> "PBratton" <PBratton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2C87F9E7-1125-4051-9AF2-6F08321BB30D@microsoft.com...
> >I have two WD IDE HD's on my system, whenever Vista boots up, it does not
> > show the slave drive in the primary chain. I have to go device manager
> > and
> > enable the drive and load the drivers...
> >
> > Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
> >
> > Am I the only one lucky enough to see this error?
> >
> > Help please!
>

Weel, I see a lot of posts aboutthe secondary HD's not loading for Vista, but
no-one has any solutions yet.

Is this a known issue with the Beta 2? If so, I'll need to back up to XP,
'cuz there's stuff on that drive I need...

C'mon! Someone let us know what's going on here please!

"PBratton" wrote:

> Bios shows both drives. When I reboot, Vista reports that it has the load
> drivers for the Master HD but nothing for the slave HD. They are both WD,
> the master is a 200GB, (WD2000JB) the slave is a 100GB (WD1000BB)...
>
> "dotcom" wrote:
>
> > What does your BIOS say?
> > dotcom
> >
> > "PBratton" <PBratton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:2C87F9E7-1125-4051-9AF2-6F08321BB30D@microsoft.com...
> > >I have two WD IDE HD's on my system, whenever Vista boots up, it does not
> > > show the slave drive in the primary chain. I have to go device manager
> > > and
> > > enable the drive and load the drivers...
> > >
> > > Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
> > >
> > > Am I the only one lucky enough to see this error?
> > >
> > > Help please!
> >

Well, I see a lot of posts aboutthe secondary HD's not loading for Vista, but
no-one has any solutions yet.

Is this a known issue with the Beta 2? If so, I'll need to back up to XP,
'cuz there's stuff on that drive I need...

C'mon! Someone let us know what's going on here please!

"PBratton" wrote:

> Bios shows both drives. When I reboot, Vista reports that it has the load
> drivers for the Master HD but nothing for the slave HD. They are both WD,
> the master is a 200GB, (WD2000JB) the slave is a 100GB (WD1000BB)...
>
> "dotcom" wrote:
>
> > What does your BIOS say?
> > dotcom
> >
> > "PBratton" <PBratton@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:2C87F9E7-1125-4051-9AF2-6F08321BB30D@microsoft.com...
> > >I have two WD IDE HD's on my system, whenever Vista boots up, it does not
> > > show the slave drive in the primary chain. I have to go device manager
> > > and
> > > enable the drive and load the drivers...
> > >
> > > Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
> > >
> > > Am I the only one lucky enough to see this error?
> > >
> > > Help please!
> >