re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" Friday, December 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jacob6601 (2160 messages posted) It is also possible that an optical (cd/dvd) drive is causing the error. Disable all drives (except boot drive c:) in bios to see if you boot normally. Written in response to: re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (C K: Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:30 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (chuckinabox: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 5:48 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (triplate: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 7:50 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (samspade: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 8:39 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (appleoddity: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 10:18 pm) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (C K: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 10:30 pm) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (Jacob6601: Fri, Dec 26, 2008, 9:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum