The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled...

[_DD]

For some reason, the parallel ATA drives dropped out on one of my XP
systems. The adapter card is there, with drives connected. It has been
working for years. On power up, the BIOS shows that the drives are
visible. Now XP suddenly fails to load the driver.

On attempt to reload the driver, I get this error message:

"Cannot Install this hardware"
" There was a problem installing this hardware: Mass Storage
Controller
An error occurred during the installation of the device
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled
or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."

To make this even more odd, I swapped in a different brand of ATA
adapter and got the same result. IOW, neither driver will load.

I've changed the mobo PCI slot, etc. No change.

That message is issued from such a wide range of problems that it's
tough to find info. Anyone have any ideas? Not sure what "service
cannot be started" either...Is there possibly some other service
that's used in getting the driver loaded?

 

[_DD]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:26:44 -0500, _DD <_DD@zerospam.com> wrote:

>For some reason, the parallel ATA drives dropped out on one of my XP
>systems. The adapter card is there, with drives connected. It has been
>working for years. On power up, the BIOS shows that the drives are
>visible. Now XP suddenly fails to load the driver.
>
>On attempt to reload the driver, I get this error message:
>
>"Cannot Install this hardware"
>" There was a problem installing this hardware: Mass Storage
>Controller
> An error occurred during the installation of the device
> The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled
> or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."
>
>To make this even more odd, I swapped in a different brand of ATA
>adapter and got the same result. IOW, neither driver will load.
>
>I've changed the mobo PCI slot, etc. No change.
>
>That message is issued from such a wide range of problems that it's
>tough to find info. Anyone have any ideas? Not sure what "service
>cannot be started" either...Is there possibly some other service
>that's used in getting the driver loaded?

PS: Just checked, and Seagate Seatools (a self-booting CDROM) sees the
adaptor and drives just fine. So no hardware problems...This is some
odd XP quirk.

 

[Touch Base]

"_DD" <_DD@zerospam.com> wrote in message
news:2ueqk595hsq0q8d6cii0j4ggdbqcd2rdvq@4ax.com...
For some reason, the parallel ATA drives dropped out on one of my XP
systems. The adapter card is there, with drives connected. It has been
working for years. On power up, the BIOS shows that the drives are
visible. Now XP suddenly fails to load the driver.

On attempt to reload the driver, I get this error message:

"Cannot Install this hardware"
" There was a problem installing this hardware: Mass Storage
Controller
An error occurred during the installation of the device
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled
or because it has no enabled devices associated with it."

To make this even more odd, I swapped in a different brand of ATA
adapter and got the same result. IOW, neither driver will load.

I've changed the mobo PCI slot, etc. No change.

That message is issued from such a wide range of problems that it's
tough to find info. Anyone have any ideas? Not sure what "service
cannot be started" either...Is there possibly some other service
that's used in getting the driver loaded?

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I had a drive that did the same thing to me recently. In fact the system
still ran, I would just get this error message on each boot that basically
said it couldn't install the driver for the hard drive or didn't know what
type of drive it was and Device Manager could not show what brand of hard
drive it was. When I exited the error message windows operated as usual. I
changed the settings on the drive from Master to Cable Select and everything
worked again, don't ask me why. I then changed it back to Master and booted
up again and everything was back to normal without issue.


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