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Boot can't locate drives after power off

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by rhfish, 2003/02/20.

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  1. 2003/02/20
    rhfish

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    Windows xp. 2 hard drives, CDR and CDRW. After the system automatically shuts the drives off (eg after 20 minutes) the system sometimes freezes. When rebooting the system cannot locate the hard drives and Windows sits at a "C:" prompt. The only way to get it to boot is to disconnect one of the drives and reconnect it.

    Any ideas?
     
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    What is the status of the Logical Disk Manager service? It should be set to automatic. Have you changed any service configurations?
     
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    Logical disk manager is Automatic and no changes have been made.
     
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    If Plug and Play service and Shell Hardware detection service are set to automatic, check to see if the drives are set to autodetect in the IDE controllers. Enable DMA if possible. If you have a choice between user configuration and autodetect for drives in BIOS, try setting that to auto, too.

    If you have a BIOS shadowing option in BIOS, try the options on that.

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    If it boots to a C: prompt, it found a drive. And I'll bet you have a line in boot.ini that takes you directly to recovery console in case of a problem.

    Please post a copy of your boot.ini file here. And say how your drives are jumpered (master/slave, whatever) and which one has the OS loaded.
     
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