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Okay, there's two major problems with my computer that are really beginning to annoy the bejesus out of me... they might be linked in some screwy Microsoft-induced not-workingness but I'm not sure...
1. Windows XP will only recognise my second hard-disk occasionally. Well, it will only recognise the data on it sometimes; it always acknowledges that there is a disk there. Sometimes I get a message saying that the drive is unformatted, and other times it works perfectly. Any suggestions?
2. Windows XP keeps freezing. In many ways this is worse than the BSOD, because it allows you no hope of recovery and forces you to reset. Normally I wouldn't mind to much, comes with the territory when you use MS products, but virtually every computer session is ended by this annoying problem. I've lost essays and posts on here all because, out of the blue, it decides to freeze up. Everything is frozen, you can't move the cursor or press CTRL+ALT+DEL. The whole bloody thing just stops until you manually restart.
Can anyone help? Do it for the sake of my computer, I'm on the verge of putting a fist through the monitor.
1. Windows XP will only recognise my second hard-disk occasionally. Well, it will only recognise the data on it sometimes; it always acknowledges that there is a disk there. Sometimes I get a message saying that the drive is unformatted, and other times it works perfectly. Any suggestions?
2. Windows XP keeps freezing. In many ways this is worse than the BSOD, because it allows you no hope of recovery and forces you to reset. Normally I wouldn't mind to much, comes with the territory when you use MS products, but virtually every computer session is ended by this annoying problem. I've lost essays and posts on here all because, out of the blue, it decides to freeze up. Everything is frozen, you can't move the cursor or press CTRL+ALT+DEL. The whole bloody thing just stops until you manually restart.
Can anyone help? Do it for the sake of my computer, I'm on the verge of putting a fist through the monitor.
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Solution = Windows XP is crap!
Theres alot of things it could be but I'd say its a fair guess the 2 problems are linked. Try to pin point when these things are happening. Is it really random, or is eg the crashing happening what the second hard-disk is being accessed or only after you've accessed certain software.
I have encountered a similar thing on win2k, in that case the HD was failing. The errors on the HD were causing win2k to crash completely.
Apologies if this is too obvious (sorry don't know your computer knowledge) but make sure you run scandisk (thorough mode) on both drives and see if that reports anything.
If that yields nothing, you might consider a reinstall of XP. Also try opening the case, and make sure the HD leads are in firmly. If you're still have problems, unplug the second HD and see if it still crashes.
Sorry I can't be much help....
-G
I have encountered a similar thing on win2k, in that case the HD was failing. The errors on the HD were causing win2k to crash completely.
Apologies if this is too obvious (sorry don't know your computer knowledge) but make sure you run scandisk (thorough mode) on both drives and see if that reports anything.
If that yields nothing, you might consider a reinstall of XP. Also try opening the case, and make sure the HD leads are in firmly. If you're still have problems, unplug the second HD and see if it still crashes.
Sorry I can't be much help....
-G
Mr. Happy wrote:
> Okay, there's two major problems with my computer that are really
> beginning to annoy the bejesus out of me... they might be linked in
> some screwy Microsoft-induced not-workingness but I'm not sure...
>
> 1. Windows XP will only recognise my second hard-disk occasionally.
> Well, it will only recognise the data on it sometimes; it always
> acknowledges that there is a disk there. Sometimes I get a message
> saying that the drive is unformatted, and other times it works
> perfectly. Any suggestions?
This is a serious problem, but I reckon it's more to do with the BIOS than XP. It surely shoudln't have ANY trouble recognising or reading ANY IDE device. Have you checked the cables are OK?
> 2. Windows XP keeps freezing. In many ways this is worse than the
> BSOD, because it allows you no hope of recovery and forces you to
> reset. Normally I wouldn't mind to much, comes with the territory when
> you use MS products, but virtually every computer session is ended by
> this annoying problem. I've lost essays and posts on here all because,
> out of the blue, it decides to freeze up. Everything is frozen, you
> can't move the cursor or press CTRL+ALT+DEL. The whole bloody thing
> just stops until you manually restart.
Hrm. Is this just an IRQ issue? XP could be loading drivers or mounting devices (or similar), does it happen totally randomly or do they happen near a definable even? Either that or it's a hardware fault, possibly your PSU or RAM failing.
> Okay, there's two major problems with my computer that are really
> beginning to annoy the bejesus out of me... they might be linked in
> some screwy Microsoft-induced not-workingness but I'm not sure...
>
> 1. Windows XP will only recognise my second hard-disk occasionally.
> Well, it will only recognise the data on it sometimes; it always
> acknowledges that there is a disk there. Sometimes I get a message
> saying that the drive is unformatted, and other times it works
> perfectly. Any suggestions?
This is a serious problem, but I reckon it's more to do with the BIOS than XP. It surely shoudln't have ANY trouble recognising or reading ANY IDE device. Have you checked the cables are OK?
> 2. Windows XP keeps freezing. In many ways this is worse than the
> BSOD, because it allows you no hope of recovery and forces you to
> reset. Normally I wouldn't mind to much, comes with the territory when
> you use MS products, but virtually every computer session is ended by
> this annoying problem. I've lost essays and posts on here all because,
> out of the blue, it decides to freeze up. Everything is frozen, you
> can't move the cursor or press CTRL+ALT+DEL. The whole bloody thing
> just stops until you manually restart.
Hrm. Is this just an IRQ issue? XP could be loading drivers or mounting devices (or similar), does it happen totally randomly or do they happen near a definable even? Either that or it's a hardware fault, possibly your PSU or RAM failing.
Okay, there's two major problems with my computer that are really beginning to annoy the bejesus out of me... they might be linked in some screwy Microsoft-induced not-workingness but I'm not sure...
1. Windows XP will only recognise my second hard-disk occasionally. Well, it will only recognise the data on it sometimes; it always acknowledges that there is a disk there. Sometimes I get a message saying that the drive is unformatted, and other times it works perfectly. Any suggestions?
2. Windows XP keeps freezing. In many ways this is worse than the BSOD, because it allows you no hope of recovery and forces you to reset. Normally I wouldn't mind to much, comes with the territory when you use MS products, but virtually every computer session is ended by this annoying problem. I've lost essays and posts on here all because, out of the blue, it decides to freeze up. Everything is frozen, you can't move the cursor or press CTRL+ALT+DEL. The whole bloody thing just stops until you manually restart.
Can anyone help? Do it for the sake of my computer, I'm on the verge of putting a fist through the monitor.
1. Windows XP will only recognise my second hard-disk occasionally. Well, it will only recognise the data on it sometimes; it always acknowledges that there is a disk there. Sometimes I get a message saying that the drive is unformatted, and other times it works perfectly. Any suggestions?
2. Windows XP keeps freezing. In many ways this is worse than the BSOD, because it allows you no hope of recovery and forces you to reset. Normally I wouldn't mind to much, comes with the territory when you use MS products, but virtually every computer session is ended by this annoying problem. I've lost essays and posts on here all because, out of the blue, it decides to freeze up. Everything is frozen, you can't move the cursor or press CTRL+ALT+DEL. The whole bloody thing just stops until you manually restart.
Can anyone help? Do it for the sake of my computer, I'm on the verge of putting a fist through the monitor.
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