sp3 won't start with external drives

[Guest jga154]

I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not start. It

freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I uninstalled sp3

and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's fixed.

[Guest Mick Murphy]

RE: sp3 won't start with external drives

 

I have absolutely no problems with XP SP3.

--

Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia

 

 

"jga154" wrote:

> I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not start. It

> freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I uninstalled sp3

> and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's fixed.

[Guest smlunatick]

Re: sp3 won't start with external drives

 

On Aug 28, 7:38 pm, jga154 <jga...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not start.. It

> freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I uninstalled sp3

> and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's fixed.

 

Sounds like to be a CMOS / BIOS setting on your PC! Most PC BIOSes

tend be set up to boot from any external drive prior to the internal

one.

[Guest jga154]

Re: sp3 won't start with external drives

 

Maybe. But I've been using the external for over a year and no problem before

sp3. Possibly it loaded wrong. I might try again sometime.

 

"smlunatick" wrote:

> On Aug 28, 7:38 pm, jga154 <jga...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not start.. It

> > freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I uninstalled sp3

> > and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's fixed.

>

> Sounds like to be a CMOS / BIOS setting on your PC! Most PC BIOSes

> tend be set up to boot from any external drive prior to the internal

> one.

>

[Guest Lil' Dave]

Re: sp3 won't start with external drives

 

If the bios setup is identical in both SP2 and SP3 installations regarding

boot order of hard drives, then the bios setup is not an issue. You have to

manually change this setting for it to change.

 

If your external drive has no active and primary partition, even if

instructed by the bios to seek this drive first, the bios should seek the

next sequential drive for a bootable partition when not finding a bootable

partition on the first.

--

Dave

 

"jga154" <jga154@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:138B9395-771E-4023-A1F7-C89E6FC600D5@microsoft.com...

> Maybe. But I've been using the external for over a year and no problem

> before

> sp3. Possibly it loaded wrong. I might try again sometime.

>

> "smlunatick" wrote:

>

>> On Aug 28, 7:38 pm, jga154 <jga...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>> > I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not

>> > start.. It

>> > freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I

>> > uninstalled sp3

>> > and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's

>> > fixed.

>>

>> Sounds like to be a CMOS / BIOS setting on your PC! Most PC BIOSes

>> tend be set up to boot from any external drive prior to the internal

>> one.

>>

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: sp3 won't start with external drives

 

>I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not start. It

>freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I uninstalled sp3

>and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's fixed.

 

What kind of external? Firewire? USB? SCSI? eSata? That info would be

helpful. Did you go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer

Management > Disk Management to see if it is there or if it is sharing

a drive letter with another device?

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest jga154]

Re: sp3 won't start with external drives

 

It is a WD 1 Terabyte Firewire assigned to the G: drive. If I hot plug the

drive after starting windows it is recognized. But won't restart with the

drive plugged in. This only occurs while running SP3. Worked fine when I

uninstalled XP3.

 

"Thee Chicago Wolf" wrote:

> >I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not start. It

> >freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I uninstalled sp3

> >and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's fixed.

>

> What kind of external? Firewire? USB? SCSI? eSata? That info would be

> helpful. Did you go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer

> Management > Disk Management to see if it is there or if it is sharing

> a drive letter with another device?

>

> - Thee Chicago Wolf

>

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: sp3 won't start with external drives

 

>It is a WD 1 Terabyte Firewire assigned to the G: drive. If I hot plug the

>drive after starting windows it is recognized. But won't restart with the

>drive plugged in. This only occurs while running SP3. Worked fine when I

>uninstalled XP3.

 

There have been a couple of KB article since SP3 was released since

SP3 was released that might address your Firewire issue.

 

1) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952825

2) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951410

 

The fix from 952825 sounds most close to your issue but the most

current 1394 related driver is from 951410.

 

If this is an Intel based computer with an Intel chipset, have you

already installed the Chipset Software Drivers from Intel? If this is

a PCI Firewire card, have you tried moving it to another PCI slot?

 

With the drive plugged in, did you go to Control Panel >

Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management and see

if it is trying to share a drive letter with another device?

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf