Win XP keeps "finding new hardware" on reboots

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How old is your battery? Perhaps the system is "forgetting" about the hard
drive.

"EOS" <FreeSoft@SkipThisPartTiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I just installed a new hard drive in my PC and it's working just fine.
> It's a Western Digital 80GByte and I used the Data LifeGuard utilty (Win
XP)
> to partition it....'looks okay....'but....
> 'Every time I reboot, Win XP keeps telling me it's "new hardware found"
and
> asks for a driver for it!
> I never knew a hard drive needed a driver....'does it?! I then looked in
the
> Control Panel\System\Device Manager and it says the device is installed
> properly.
> Well, I'm using it...'but is there something I've done wrong? I've
installed
> hard drives before, but
> always used FDisk from DOS, this time I left it to Data LifeGuard to do
the
> work for me. The new drive is an OEM one and therefore all I got was a
bare
> drive and had to download the Data LifeGuard utility from the Western
> Digital website as I got no CD or floppy to help with the installation.
>
> Any advice as to how to get rid of the mesage at bootup would be much
> appreciated.
>
> TIA.
> Eos.
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