WD not recognized after warm reboot

[boynthemiddle]

PIII, 700 MHz
576 MB RAM
Western Digital 40 GB HD (Master)
HP CD-Writer (Slave)

I recently upgraded to the WD40GB drive from a WD15GB drive. The old drive worked fine with Win98SE. After replacing the HD, I installed XP. The system would not power down automatically ("You may safely turn off your computer" syndrome), but I fixed that by enabling APM. So now the computer will shut down and turn off automatically when I tell it to.

However, when I want to do a warm reboot, the HD doesn't seem to reset. Then BIOS won't recognize the HD during startup and, of course, the computer doesn't boot. So if I ever need to reboot, I have to turn the system off then back on (which I can deal with, but it gets rather annoying). ;-)

I put the old drive with the old OS back in to test it out, and it still reboots properly.

Any suggestions for the new drive? Thanks!! :-D

 

[tbirdkid]

This sounds kinda like your motherboard doesn't recognise the drive OR your bios recognises it but needs to be flashed. After all a 15G to a 40G.....the computer must be older to begin with. Also I would suggest that you make your burner the secondary master, then you won't have the same cable trying to talk to both devices at the same time.
Just a thought to begin with.