17 Aug
2004
17 Aug
'04
04:10
On Monday August 16 2004 11:40 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
From XP again.
First, thanx to Josten Bernstsen for his message, which unfortunately was unhelpful, but not his fault. The boot cycle still hangs, even tho the "repair" program thinks everything is OK.
[snip] Doug, I'm coming in late to this, so maybe I'm way off base here. Is the hard drive(s) new Western Digital, by chance? Of late, I've had VERY BAD luck with them.....seems they have some code in their IDE controllers that is ONLY MickySoft friendly. That is my assessment at this time anyway. Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."