Hardware Installation Challenge

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joe2665

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Drive 0 took a dump. They sent me a replacement. Same Drive, same model#. (exact replacement)

I reloaded the OS - XP Pro along with SP2. Everything was disconnected 'cept for the IDE HD and my CD ROM during the install.

I then started to reconnect devices one by one. First device was a HD, SATA Maxtor 160 Gig. After reboot I get the found new hardware - disk drive balloon.
Then I get the found new hardware wizard. The wizard states cannot install this hardware.
The drive shows up in the device mangler with the yellow exclaimation. Drive shows up in "my computer" and the data on it is accessable.

Things I have tried:
1. Recopied the C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386\driver.cab from the installation CD.
2. Removed all listings in the registry relating to the drive.
3. Reloaded all drivers and BIOS updates related to the MB.
4. Updated everything Microsoft auto update recommended.

The following are (error?) messages that are generated after boot:

- cannot install this hardware
- there was aproblem installing this hardware
- the specified device does not exist as an installed service

Maybe there is a clue that I am overlooking hidden in the messages?

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never seen this problem before, but i ALWAYS have EVERYTHING hooked up when i'm installing a O/S...whether it be a slave HD or a webcam.
i never encouter problems that way, but when i seem to hook up stuff right after, tha's when the computer goes retarded.

this way, it will catch everything before it's ready to run.
 
I would suggest do a BIOS flash on your motherboard.

btw, you sure only the hard disk is having the problem?
 
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