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Drive problem in XP Pro

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by shamman12

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I have recently loaded XP Pro on my home test machine, after it finished XP refuses to see any drive attached to my onboard secondary IDE channel. I have reformatted and reloaded the machine, XP is still unable to see drives attached to the channel.

I am running the following hardware setup:

MB: ASUS A7V-133
HD: Maxtor 20GB
RAM: 512 PC-133
Drives (Attached to secondary channel):
HP 9100 Series Burner
Iomega Zip 100

Any ideas, or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

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by pikikoko

I would try going to the Disk Management plug-in and click the action menu and then rescan the drives you see listed.
It may work on winxp. This happened to me on win2k and it worked for me.
good luck

by thechas

Download and install the compatability updates.
There are numerous driver and software updates that you will need.

In fact, your burner won't function without the updates.

If you still have problems, try disconnecting the ZIP drive, and see if the burner is recognized.

Chas

by dcosgrove

Does the secondary ide controller show up in the device mngr? If not you may have to reinstall the drivers for the root ide controller.

by yacco

Check the Asus site for XP specific mobo drivers. You may need updated I.D.E. controller drivers.

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