Re: sp3 will not re boot with a firewire external hard drive attached

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"paul" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Please help.

I have 2 Identical computers. One which had the WD Firewire my book
attached
and turned on all the time sp3 was installed has no problems re booting.
The
other which had the WD drive off during the sp3 installation will not
reboot
if it is later on at the time of the boot. Once xp up and running WD drive
can be attached as normal but must be off for boot ups. Uninstalling and
re
installing sp3 with it on doesn't help still won't re boot with it on.

Paul
If you feel that this is a prob caused by SP3, then research/ask in the
wondowsupdate group where there has been a huge response to SP3.
Also there has been much discussed in the windowsgeneral about SP3.

Antioch


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