Post-SP3 Blues - External Drives Stopped Working

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I've been careful about the assigned drive letters, however the drives may
been first assigned a drive letter when firewire worked, and since then had
the same drive letter assigned when connected vi USB2.

- Michael Faklis
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"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message
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> >Well, it was a nice exercise, but it didn't fix the problem.
>>
>>I did a safe boot to delete all of the unused devices. I was pretty
>>excited
>>when I rebooted, because my laptop came up after just a minute, rather
>>than
>>the 10 minutes it usually takes to startup. It turns out that XP
>>immediately reloaded all of the unused devices, even those that hadn't
>>been
>>attached for years. The next reboot took 10 minutes again. I attached my
>>external devices one by one. The first firewire drive attached correctly,
>>but the second failed to attach as daisy-chains to the first, or when
>>attached to its own firewire port. So there was no real change.
>>
>>It was interesting to see of those unused devices. My laptop has gone
>>through 3 motherboards, a processor upgrade (with one of the
>>motherboards),
>>three LCD panels, 4 primary disk drives, and various other changes, and
>>all
>>of those obsolete devices were still registered. As I mentioned above,
>>they
>>all reregistered upon reboot. There has to be some branch in the registry
>>that needs to be cleared up to prevent those old devices from
>>reregistering.
>
> Sorry it didn't work out. Dumb question: Is the system BIOS up to
> date? I was also wondering possibly there was kind of butting of heads
> with drives wanting to be the same drive letter and thus the other
> drive is not showing up. I've seen this when I've plugged in external
> USB drives and flash drives at the same time. If I go to the Disk
> Management tool, all the drives will be there but for whatever bizarre
> reason, one drive that already has a reserved drive letter, is also
> being occupied by another device and it also has the same drive letter
> but cannot be seen. When I do "Change drive letters and paths" and
> assign it a different drive letter, it shows up.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf
 
Yep, it's the same problem. From reading your thread, it appears we all
have problems with Western Digital's My Books. Could it be that the "WD
SAM" driver is not working correctly?

- Michael Faklis

"Revtim" <Revtim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have pretty much the same problem, I opened a thread here:
> http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3322435&SiteID=17&mode=1
>
> No solution yet, although a helpful Microsoft employee is looking into it.
> You may want to monitor that thread.
>
>
> "Michael Faklis" wrote:
>
>> I installed SP3 on my 32-bit Windows Professional laptop, but its had
>> some
>> undesirable side effects I need some help correcting:
>>
>> 1) The Address toolbar is gone. It's even missing from the list of
>> available toolbars. I find this a very useful tool. How can I recover
>> this
>> tool?
>>
>> 2) My external disks are having trouble starting up, which results in
>> Windows not starting up. The two firewire disks were daisy-chained. I
>> now
>> need to remove them to start windows, and even then when reconnected one
>> at
>> a time, only the first one of them will start-up. When connecting the
>> second one (daisy chained or in a second firewire port) both firewire
>> drives
>> stopped working. Windows itself stays up. With USB2 drives, Windows
>> starts up, but often only one drive is recognized. From time to time,
>> both
>> USB2 drives are recognized.
>>
>> Can anyone give me a hint on how to correct these problems?
>>
>> - Michael Faklis <Michael_Faklis@EvolSwSys.net>
>>
>>
>>
 
This is definitely a Microsoft sp3 problem.

I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book attached
and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting. The
other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not reboot
if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive
can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and re
installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on.
 
This is definitely a Microsoft sp3 problem.

I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book attached
and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting. The
other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not reboot
if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive
can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and re
installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on.
 
This is definitely a Microsoft sp3 problem.

I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book attached
and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting. The
other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not reboot
if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive
can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and re
installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on.
 
>I've been careful about the assigned drive letters, however the drives may
>been first assigned a drive letter when firewire worked, and since then had
>the same drive letter assigned when connected vi USB2.

Just curious but how new is your computer in terms of "years old"?

- Thee Chicago Wolf
 
I may have found a solution that worked for me. After upgrading to XP sp3 my
computer would not boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, after
reading through countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on
Western digitals site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to
revert to an older version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the
uninstall directory on my C drive. Just replace this version with the version
SP3 installed and everything works now. I can restart my computer now with my
firewire drive plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems to
be working fine. Good luck
 
I may have found a solution. After upgrading to XP sp3 my computer would not
boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, after reading through
countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on Western digitals
site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to revert to an older
version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the uninstall directory on my
C drive. Just replace this version with the version SP3 installed and
everything works now. I can restart my computer now with my firewire drive
plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems to be working
fine. Good luck
 
"Just to add a data point: the PCs I have updated to SP3 have no difficulty
booting with Firewire disks attached, and allocating drive letters to them.
So this is not a consistent problem: there must be some other factor (apart
from the sbp2 driver) which triggers this issue."

I agree same with me. One computer no problem other identical computer
problem.
 
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