Corey

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Several months ago I turned off a feature in XP that makes it boot up quicker.
What I did was read in one of my mags that you can turn off a feature that scans at boot up if you have added any new hard drives on the secondary channel, or added one as a slave to the primary channel along with the stock hard drive.

When turned off the PC boots quicker, but will not detect a new drive.
For the life of me I can not find how to turn it back on, as eventually I am going to add another drive.

I looked in the Device Manager for the IDE drives and clicked on the props for them, but can not locate what I am looking for.
It is somewhere else.
Does anyone know what I am looking for?

It is not to often the PC stumps me, as I am the master over it most of the time, and know my way pretty good around PCs and troubleshooting them.

Thanks,

Marc

Are you sure it's not a setting in the BIOS? Perhaps changing the IDE settings from NONE to AUTO?

Corey

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Nope, I looked in the BIOS today, and it's set to auto.
This is an XP thing, and was done in Windows.

I may have to hunt through about 50 PC mags to find it again

jrallan26

Corey,

You probably already thought of this. Did you go to your "boot-up"screen and check out your settings? (reboot the PC and use F2)

Corey

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Did not try that, but I found it.
It WAS in the Device Manager afterall, I overlooked it earlier.

Sorry, my scanner (SCSI) is on my old PC, and I have not updated it to run on the old PC since putting XP on it, so I took a digital pic of the magazine.
It only took me 7 issues to look through to find where I read it before.

http://www.pnw4runners.com/temp/ide_drives.jpg

Mine is currently set to "none", and if I wish to add another hard drive, I just have to click the drop down box and put it on auto.

This does indeed speed up the boot process a bit, but not really needed on my very fast machine, so I'll put it back on auto again.

Eventualy I want to add one SATA drive and make it the C drive, and copy the contents of my current IDE drive to it, and make my current drive the D drive, wipe it clean, and use it for storage and backup.
Much cheaper than paying more $$$ for an external back up drive, and easier than using DVD RWs to back up to.

Marc

Check this out http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/12/2/12-2-1.shtml
or do a google search on Bootvis.

Corey

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I DL'd Boot Vis a few months back, and I think I may even have it running.

MvCrash

Greetings,
You can control that option in the services control panel under "Logical Disk Manager" There are a few options you can use.

Mv