I upgraded to a WD 100GB hard drive two days ago. It's the SE flavor, refurbished, from newegg.
My problem, as noted in the Message Title, is that my system doesn't detect the HDD on a cold boot. I must go into the bios and "auto-detect" the drive. That proess takes longer than usual (approximately 17 seconds) before detecting the drive as the Master on IDE 1 and my CD-RW and CD-ROM as the Master and Slave on IDE 2.
Once I do that, I'm good to go and everything runs smoothly. Short of running my system 24/7, what's the "fix" for this?
My problem, as noted in the Message Title, is that my system doesn't detect the HDD on a cold boot. I must go into the bios and "auto-detect" the drive. That proess takes longer than usual (approximately 17 seconds) before detecting the drive as the Master on IDE 1 and my CD-RW and CD-ROM as the Master and Slave on IDE 2.
Once I do that, I'm good to go and everything runs smoothly. Short of running my system 24/7, what's the "fix" for this?