I usually leave XP running and rarely shut down the computer.. But the times i do shut it down every time i turn it on i get an error. I see it every day but i cant remember what it is something about insert boot disk or invalid something. I just hit the power button then back on and XP loads like it should. I thought it might be because i have an ata100 HD and my motherboard only supports ata66. Or because i moved my hardware into a new case with a p4 rated power supply. Tell the truth i have no idea what the problem is here. Is this similar to the error your having Mr.No Drive?

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Same issue here,I chalked it up to the dual boot thing.On a "hard" shutdown it will not find the "D" drive on reboot(where XP is located).A complete restart and all is fine again. I dunno... Jimi_l

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I believe XP has serious bugs, I have the problem where, my CD drives will throw up a CRC error. When I disable DMA the drives are very slow, but work, XP has a problem, it seems with IDE and DMA. I dual boot with ME and this problem doe's not occur in ME. I would have thought microsoft tested for these type of bugs, as IDE drives are quite important :)

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Jimi, i thought about that too. So i installed XP on a master drive by itself early on. The problem still occurs. This post got me curious so tonight i installed XP on an formatted ata66 HD and used the correct ide cables. The problem still occurs. Im using a hardware device to seperate 3 master HD's Trios hardrive selector. Nothing is showing up in any of the error logs. Im lost :) The only thing i can think of on my end now is the fact that im running the HD thru this device. Others having the same error kind of rules out the trios device ( i hope ). Going to search the mskb and see what i can dig up if anything.

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i had the same problem try this fix it fixed mine without a problem Use regedit to remove the keys named UpperFilter and LowerFilter from: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} just make sure it acrually says in the value in registry cd dvd rom drives

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all i know is that when i tried to install xp, it would not recognise my drives. the problem i found was lying with my motherboard. it has 2 bios 1 for ide drives and one for the highpoint hpt66 udma. once i bypassed this and just used udma 33 on the normal ide bios hey presto there my drive was. i believe there is an issue with xp that it does not recognise hpt66.

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There clearly is a problem, but it is NOT a "bug" in XP. And remember, it's not just Microsoft who checks these things before a product is released. XP (Whistler) has been tested and re-tested and re-tested by countless beta testers all over the world who provided input into the product before it's final release. A problem with reading a drive would not have slipped by. Good luck. writerranger

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well after fooling around with cables and such last night i havent been able to get it to happen again. Fingers crossed!

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Listen here, It's not the beta testers responsibility to verify the code. It's up to Microsoft and whoever is getting paid to validate the code.

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Listen Up: You misunderstood. I was saying that a problem as clear as not seeing the C drive would not have slipped by all the beta testers AND Microsoft. I didn't say it was the beta testers responsibility. They signed up to participate and offer the feedback and I was simply saying something like this would not have slipped by so many beta testers AND M$FT if it was a "bug"....

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