Computer Problem ( Secondary (Slave) (IDE) Hard Drive) Keeps deactivating by Windows XP Professional.
Okay I have a secondary hard drive that I used now for a while now. Storing data on it and such. It's a 250 GB Maxtor Hard drive. It's already been formated for a long time ago. Ok the problem is that one time it didn't show up on "My Computer", so what I did then was restart the computer. And it showed up. Okay, that was a while back. I don't know why it did that. But I wasn't worrying about the problem for a while.
But recently it happened again. I restarted the computer 3 times, and it still doesn't show up. So now I kind of paniked. Finally what I did was go into Device Manager, clicked disk drives and "Scan for Hardware changes" And once I did that it actually showed up. Then I went to "Administrative tools" > "Computer Management" > "Disk Management" and it's now there, but it's decatived. So I reactivated. And now it shows up, all my data is there etc.
So now I decide to run a utility tool (thinking the hard drive maybe getting defective, but I'm not hearing scratching noises or anything) but I just want to check, I run a little test, from Seagate, the "SafeTest" and it passes. The other test requires me to lose data, and I can't do that one, because I havent backed up. So I shut down the computer for now.
And now the same problem happens today. The hard drive doesn't show up, so I re-enable it by going into device manager and checking for hardware changes , then reactivating it again through computer mangament. And it shows up.
I just have no idea what is going on. Or why it's doing this. I ran some google searches on the problem. (It started talking about Slave and jumpers and changing that, but if the problem was that, then why can I enable it through hardware changes) Anyways, I think my problem maybe unique. Both my hard drives do show up in Bios actually.
Also, I did check my "Event Viewer" stuff. It did say for last night "The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period". I'm not sure the device is referring to the same device as my hard drive though, so I don't know what it means, and I googled it and havent gotten much far on this information"
Today there were errors read "Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service to connect."
"The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. "
So it's not talking about a hard drive. So is this a hardware problem or software problem? Why do I have to keep re-enabling this?
Computer Specs
Motherboard: D865VHZ
CPU: Intel Celeron 335 (2.8 GHZ)
Memory: (256 MBytes DDR) (Getting more Ram, I know)
Graphics: Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3)
Hard Drives: (Maxtor 6L250R0) Location 1 (1) Secondary Slave
Hard Drives: (ST380011A) Location 0 (0) Primary
Okay I have a secondary hard drive that I used now for a while now. Storing data on it and such. It's a 250 GB Maxtor Hard drive. It's already been formated for a long time ago. Ok the problem is that one time it didn't show up on "My Computer", so what I did then was restart the computer. And it showed up. Okay, that was a while back. I don't know why it did that. But I wasn't worrying about the problem for a while.
But recently it happened again. I restarted the computer 3 times, and it still doesn't show up. So now I kind of paniked. Finally what I did was go into Device Manager, clicked disk drives and "Scan for Hardware changes" And once I did that it actually showed up. Then I went to "Administrative tools" > "Computer Management" > "Disk Management" and it's now there, but it's decatived. So I reactivated. And now it shows up, all my data is there etc.
So now I decide to run a utility tool (thinking the hard drive maybe getting defective, but I'm not hearing scratching noises or anything) but I just want to check, I run a little test, from Seagate, the "SafeTest" and it passes. The other test requires me to lose data, and I can't do that one, because I havent backed up. So I shut down the computer for now.
And now the same problem happens today. The hard drive doesn't show up, so I re-enable it by going into device manager and checking for hardware changes , then reactivating it again through computer mangament. And it shows up.
I just have no idea what is going on. Or why it's doing this. I ran some google searches on the problem. (It started talking about Slave and jumpers and changing that, but if the problem was that, then why can I enable it through hardware changes) Anyways, I think my problem maybe unique. Both my hard drives do show up in Bios actually.
Also, I did check my "Event Viewer" stuff. It did say for last night "The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period". I'm not sure the device is referring to the same device as my hard drive though, so I don't know what it means, and I googled it and havent gotten much far on this information"
Today there were errors read "Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service to connect."
"The IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion. "
So it's not talking about a hard drive. So is this a hardware problem or software problem? Why do I have to keep re-enabling this?
Computer Specs
Motherboard: D865VHZ
CPU: Intel Celeron 335 (2.8 GHZ)
Memory: (256 MBytes DDR) (Getting more Ram, I know)
Graphics: Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3)
Hard Drives: (Maxtor 6L250R0) Location 1 (1) Secondary Slave
Hard Drives: (ST380011A) Location 0 (0) Primary