Guest Thee Chicago Wolf Posted May 21, 2008 Posted May 21, 2008 Re: Post-SP3 Blues - External Drives Stopped Working >I've been careful about the assigned drive letters, however the drives may >been first assigned a drive letter when firewire worked, and since then had >the same drive letter assigned when connected vi USB2. Just curious but how new is your computer in terms of "years old"? - Thee Chicago Wolf
Guest paul Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Re: Post-SP3 Blues - External Drives Stopped Working I may have found a solution that worked for me. After upgrading to XP sp3 my computer would not boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, after reading through countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on Western digitals site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to revert to an older version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the uninstall directory on my C drive. Just replace this version with the version SP3 installed and everything works now. I can restart my computer now with my firewire drive plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems to be working fine. Good luck
Guest paul Posted June 10, 2008 Posted June 10, 2008 RE: Post-SP3 Blues - External Drives Stopped Working I may have found a solution. After upgrading to XP sp3 my computer would not boot with my external firewire drive plugged in. So, after reading through countless forums and knowledge bases I found the answer on Western digitals site. The problem comes from sbp2port.sys, You have to revert to an older version(5.1.2600.2180). I found this version in the uninstall directory on my C drive. Just replace this version with the version SP3 installed and everything works now. I can restart my computer now with my firewire drive plugged in. I did this a few days ago and every thing seems to be working fine. Good luck
Guest paul Posted June 12, 2008 Posted June 12, 2008 RE: Post-SP3 Blues - External Drives Stopped Working "Just to add a data point: the PCs I have updated to SP3 have no difficulty booting with Firewire disks attached, and allocating drive letters to them. So this is not a consistent problem: there must be some other factor (apart from the sbp2 driver) which triggers this issue." I agree same with me. One computer no problem other identical computer problem.
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