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Originally Posted by bogart
All indicators move fine when my Napa SZ is knocked at the right places with only the utility installed in XP. When the driver was installed as well, it would cause freezing during start up (about a 20 second freeze). I knew the HDD Protection caused the freeze because it always happened while the HDD tray icon appeared.
Are you certain AHCI is to blame for this? Have you tried to disable AHCI and see if the HDD Protection works?
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I'm sure AHCI has something to do with it, because in non-AHCI mode, the HDD protection utility is able to install and work (driver also installed).
But you pointed an interesting observation about using the utility without installing the driver. I am going to try the HDD protection utility without the driver and see what happens. (I too and using a Napa SZ.)
UPDATE: I have tried installing the HDD protection utility without the HDD protection driver, and it works! However, I experienced a similar "freezing" problem on windows startup - the system freezes for approx. 20 seconds before continuing with startup, after HDD protection utlity has been installed (but without the driver installed). This is in Vista SP1, and I am using HDD protection utility version 2.0.00.11090.
UPDATE 2: I have now installed the HDD protection driver as well, and HDD protection still works. There is still the same 20 second freeze on windows startup, though - with or without the HDD protection driver.