Sounds like the drive is not ready when the system comes up. I know
multiple SCSI drives can take time to power up on a SCSI chain but yours is
IDE. Never heard of this.

I would run the manufacturers diags from Western Digital to verify that the
drive is okay.

Try changing the IDE cable if possible.

Try moving to another IDE port. See if the problem moves around.

Please provide more info like the setup. Is it master on the 2ndary IDE
with a CD or CD-R as slave ?

When did this start? You just added the drive?? Has it been running stable
for a long time? Make any changes ??? hardware or software. Any recent
serious crashes.

It could be Win 200 acting up but I don't know 2000.

Could just be the drive is hooped or the motherboard.
"Peter" wrote in message
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My hard drive (Western Digital 40GB WD400EB) is not visible after a long
"power off" situation, I mean when the server is off for a few hours.
My system is a Windows 2000 server SP 4.

Ive' noticed 3 things when my drive is invisible in explorer;

1. The drive is visible in the BIOS
2. The drive is visible in Device Manager
3. The drive is INVISIBLE in Disk Managment

The only way for me to solve it is by disconnecting the IDE cable to the
drive, rconnecting it and rebooting the system. Yes, weird...
Looks like the drive is in some sort of locked state...

If the drive is visible, then everything works fine; I can read AND write
data. The drive doesn't contain WD's EZ-Bios.
I've formatted and partitioned the drive a few time, but that didn't solve
anything.

Btw, the drive is Master on IDE-2 and contains no operating system, only
data.

IDE1 contains two WD drives, of which one contains the operating system.

I looked for days on Google and the web (including Western Digital's
support) but couldn't find any solution.

Thanks in advance