Re-enabling hard drive??

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Bazza

any help appreciated.....
One of my hard drives (D:), was randomly triggering the 'autorun' window to
appear. As I couldn't work out why and because I was experiencing short
lock-ups on my machine that started at roughly the same time, I decided to
disable this harddrive in device manager to see if this fixed the lock-ups.
It didn't, so I thought I would simply go back to device manager and
re-enable the drive. Its vanished from the list. I've looked in admin
tools/disk management and theres no sign of it there either.
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Bazza, did you try a restart? Let WinXP reinstall it.
"Bazza" <Bazza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> any help appreciated.....
> One of my hard drives (D:), was randomly triggering the 'autorun' window
> to
> appear. As I couldn't work out why and because I was experiencing short
> lock-ups on my machine that started at roughly the same time, I decided to
> disable this harddrive in device manager to see if this fixed the
> lock-ups.
> It didn't, so I thought I would simply go back to device manager and
> re-enable the drive. Its vanished from the list. I've looked in admin
> tools/disk management and theres no sign of it there either.
> --
> I am currently out of my mind but please feel free to leave a message
 
I have restarted many times to no avail. I have recently noticed that the
drive no longer appears in the bios. It is a sata drive. The 2 IDE drives are
there and the Sata C: drive obviously is there but no mention of, or any way
of scanning for the secondary Sata drive that I disabled in XP. I have
disabled hardware before in order to problem solve, but it was always there
to be re-enabled after. I understood that disabling in device manager only
meant that XP wouldn't use the hardware. I cant understand how it could
disappear from the bios.

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"Rich Barry" wrote:

> Bazza, did you try a restart? Let WinXP reinstall it.
> "Bazza" <Bazza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B0A18F1B-1838-4171-A2A7-5E9C34C8858B@microsoft.com...
> > any help appreciated.....
> > One of my hard drives (D:), was randomly triggering the 'autorun' window
> > to
> > appear. As I couldn't work out why and because I was experiencing short
> > lock-ups on my machine that started at roughly the same time, I decided to
> > disable this harddrive in device manager to see if this fixed the
> > lock-ups.
> > It didn't, so I thought I would simply go back to device manager and
> > re-enable the drive. Its vanished from the list. I've looked in admin
> > tools/disk management and theres no sign of it there either.
> > --
> > I am currently out of my mind but please feel free to leave a message
>
>
>
 
You need to look at the hardware side of your problem, if the drive isn't
being detected in BIOS, Windows isn't going to see it. Check connections,
BIOS settings, etc.

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"Bazza" <Bazza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have restarted many times to no avail. I have recently noticed that the
> drive no longer appears in the bios. It is a sata drive. The 2 IDE drives
> are
> there and the Sata C: drive obviously is there but no mention of, or any
> way
> of scanning for the secondary Sata drive that I disabled in XP. I have
> disabled hardware before in order to problem solve, but it was always
> there
> to be re-enabled after. I understood that disabling in device manager only
> meant that XP wouldn't use the hardware. I cant understand how it could
> disappear from the bios.
>
> --
> I am currently out of my mind but please feel free to leave a message
>
>
> "Rich Barry" wrote:
>
>> Bazza, did you try a restart? Let WinXP reinstall it.
>> "Bazza" <Bazza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:B0A18F1B-1838-4171-A2A7-5E9C34C8858B@microsoft.com...
>> > any help appreciated.....
>> > One of my hard drives (D:), was randomly triggering the 'autorun'
>> > window
>> > to
>> > appear. As I couldn't work out why and because I was experiencing
>> > short
>> > lock-ups on my machine that started at roughly the same time, I decided
>> > to
>> > disable this harddrive in device manager to see if this fixed the
>> > lock-ups.
>> > It didn't, so I thought I would simply go back to device manager and
>> > re-enable the drive. Its vanished from the list. I've looked in admin
>> > tools/disk management and theres no sign of it there either.
>> > --
>> > I am currently out of my mind but please feel free to leave a message
>>
>>
>>
 
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