White progress bar during startup

[Kishan]

Can anyone tell me how to remove the white progress bar that shows at the time of startup? I have posted this issue on many websites but nobody has the answers? When asked then they tell me that I have done something wrong when I installed my second drive. This problem started when I was using a second hard drive. I have set this drive as the slave drive and my first drive is setup as Master thats the drive Windows XP boots from. Can anyone please help me out? Thanks.

[Gonzo]

You can try to boot to an XP CD, then choose recovery and then in the recovery type - Fixboot and then you can also type CHKDSK C: /p and then exit and then start XP.

[Kishan]

Thanks for that but it is not working for me. Do you have some other ideas?

[Anywhere]

I think that progress bar lets you know that you are exiting hibernation mode. Can you tell us how are you shutting down the pc?

[techman]

I have different computers that have a starting progress bar, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, normally how long it shows depends on what I have loading. Incase your computer is taking a long time to load Win, then after installing a second hard drive, then that could indicate a driver problem.

[Kishan]

I dont think its hibernating because I have all the hibernation setting turned off. I am also using either shutdown or restart. It will also do it if I have to turn off at the power switch if I have computer locked up. Thanks for the replies.

[unidentified]

What is the driver problem that you are talking about? Did you mean to say that for the second hard drive that you use? You want a driver for the hard drive, is that what you are saying?