Often When I boot my Laptop the systems hangs – in the BIOS the hard drive does not appear. Eventually if I restart enough times the system boots and the hard drive is now in the bios settings. Some times I Get a message that the media is missing – check the cable. I have an Acer Aspire 51000 160 gig eide HD – brand new – this happened with my old drive also – thats why I got a new one. System event ID 7 and 51 appear all the time – even with the new drive. Any ideas? Disabling disk caching didn’t hep. Running Windows XP media Edition
Thanks
