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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!

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"PBratton" wrote in message

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" wrote in message 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" wrote in message 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" wrote in message 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" wrote in message 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!