Latest problem + others (rant)

[Guest Menno Hershberger]

Since I haven't posted for a while...

I am dual-booting Vista (on C drive) and XP Pro (on D)

Pentium D, 3.2Ghz Dual processor, 2Gb ram.

3 physical IDE hard drives. First drive is partioned as C, D, E, F, and G).

Second and third drives are H and I respectively and are for storage only.

About two weeks ago, I replaced the third drive with a larger WD 320Gb

drive. XP went thru it's Found New Hardware thing, asid it was successfully

installed and never even required a reboot. Since I rarely use Vista (don't

have time to wait on everything), I never gave it a thought.

Tonight I had a little spare time on my hands, so I decided to boot into

Vista and play around a while. It started the hardware wizard, asked if I

wanted to check on the internet for drivers. I did. It didn't find them.

All of this took at least ten minutes. I finally just cancelled out of it.

It shows up in Device Manager as "working properly" and I can read and

write to it just fine. So I thought if I rebooted, maybe it'd cure itself

on the second time around. But it didn't. It still finds new hardware,

searches for a driver, and can't find it.

How do I tell this damn machine that the thing is working just fine and to

leave it alone?

Right now, a half hour after I rebooted the second time,

"trustedinstaller.exe" is still eating up 90% of my resources. I'm told

that that is something to do with Windows update, but the only update I got

was Windows Defender, even though I have it disabled.

That's why I stay in XP all the time... :-)

 

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