Firewire Hard Drive Disappears on Reboot

[JMLESQ]

I posted this a few months ago and got zero response. I again researched
this and noticed numerous people with this problem and yet no one has found
a resolution. It does not appear to be related to the specific hardware
(I've seen reports of it happening on numerous different hard drives with
numerous different firewire controllers. I therefore suspect its a XP issue.

I have an external firewire hard drive connected to my SB Audigy2 card.
Whenever I reboot, the hard drive disappears from Explorer. If I unplug the
drive and plug it back in, the drive reappears. Of course, if I reboot, the
drive is again gone.

My Sony Digital Video Camera connected to the same firewire port does not
exhibit this behaviour. In other words, its there and fully functional after
every reboot.

I reformatted my drive and started over with no change. Two completely fresh
installs and it does the same thing. Interestingly, this worked fine on the
old computer and that was also running XP Pro. This does suggest that a
recent patch causes the problem or its some piece of hardware.

PLEASE HELP!

Thanks,

John

[JMLESQ]

Just looked at the MS KB and turns out it's a known issue without a
resolution:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811077\

The article says it happens every one out of five reboots. For me, it
happens every time.

John


"JMLESQ" > wrote in message
...
> I posted this a few months ago and got zero response. I again researched
> this and noticed numerous people with this problem and yet no one has
found
> a resolution. It does not appear to be related to the specific hardware
> (I've seen reports of it happening on numerous different hard drives with
> numerous different firewire controllers. I therefore suspect its a XP
issue.
>
> I have an external firewire hard drive connected to my SB Audigy2 card.
> Whenever I reboot, the hard drive disappears from Explorer. If I unplug
the
> drive and plug it back in, the drive reappears. Of course, if I reboot,
the
> drive is again gone.
>
> My Sony Digital Video Camera connected to the same firewire port does not
> exhibit this behaviour. In other words, its there and fully functional
after
> every reboot.
>
> I reformatted my drive and started over with no change. Two completely
fresh
> installs and it does the same thing. Interestingly, this worked fine on
the
> old computer and that was also running XP Pro. This does suggest that a
> recent patch causes the problem or its some piece of hardware.
>
> PLEASE HELP!
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>