This is a shot in the dark, but did you try to defragment and have it interrupted (i.e. power outage) since your last install? That can sometimes damage whatever data was being operated on at the time of failure, and may have ruined some of your system files.
From my experience, usually this is caused by a program with an ongoing memory leak (i.e. Firefox), that struggles to shut down.
How long have you waited after shutting down before manually taking over? At times, I've waited up to 10-15 minutes before Windows can handle it on its own.
I had this problem years ago.
What I think happened was that I used hardware drivers from the monitor manufacturer, and it conflicted with Windows' power management settings for my display. If you have any utilities or drivers for your monitor, may want to try disabling/uninstalling them...
Hey everyone,
I just got a S-ATA 160GB Maxtor DiamondPlus 9 HD back from an RMA, and need to partition/format/install Windows on it.
Trouble is, Windows won't recognize my HD. I boot from the CD, press F6 for 3rd party drivers, put in the floppies (tried both the Promise ATA and RAID)...
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