Some outdated BIOS do just that. You can see the BIOS not detect the drive.
Bob
Hi! Recently I added a HD to my PC running WinXPSP2, formatted by WinXP and installed as primary slave.
When I turn the PC ON, the driver is not shown, only C: and D: are indicated (primay master) but primary slave does not. If I restart the system the slave disk shows up and works normally. When I turn the system OFF and them ON again the slave is again missing, once again to see the slave drive I have to restart the system one more time. Any suggestion?

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