I recently added a new harddrive on the Secondary Master IDE port of a client’s desktop. He had 2 drives on the Primary IDE chain. The drive was recognized and Windows XP Pro came up and I was able to partition and format the drive with the latest version of Western Digital’s software.
Then, I noticed that datacable to the slave drive on the Primary IDE chain had become unplugged. When the drive was plugged in, Windows started to come up but rebooted the computer during the Welcome screen. When I unplugged the new drive, Windows booted without problem.
I tried going into Safe Mode but WinXP restarted as before. I make certain that WinXp was not set to “restart on error”, yet WinXP restarted.
What’s going on? Do you need more information? Does anyone have any suggestions about resolving this problem?
Thanks;
Stan
sbrager@socal.rr.com