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Hey all I am having some issues with a Hard Drive this post has nothing to do with W7 but I could use some helo and figured ill ask I am actually running Windows XP SP3.................................................................................
My PC wont boot when my secondary drive is physically plugged in to the mobo. For the record the drive has no OS installed on it and it is a NTSF It just has data on it.
I am running XP SP3 and Im sure I have all the SATA cables going to the right place
When I boot with both HDD connected It just hangs at the Windows loading screen without any bars actually progressing.
I believe the problem is Windows is trying to boot from the second HDD I just don't know how to fix it.
Also last night I took everything out and apart to clean some dust after it was all said and done. I rebooted about 3 times just to make sure. There was no problems. The PC was off all day and when I tried to boot tonight ^^^^ happened.
Some other things I tried.......
I dissconected all other devices such as DVD-rom and external HDD to eliminate problems.
When i go into bios with only primary(WD) and the secondary(Seagate) connected to the mobo, the primary is the only HD detected.
I tried having only the second(Seagate) HD connected to the primary slot on the motherboard and I still get no detection out of the bios?
I am sure the HD (Seagate) is getting power because I can hear it and I eliminated that problem by trying different Power Cables
Has the Seagate seen its days?
My PC wont boot when my secondary drive is physically plugged in to the mobo. For the record the drive has no OS installed on it and it is a NTSF It just has data on it.
I am running XP SP3 and Im sure I have all the SATA cables going to the right place
When I boot with both HDD connected It just hangs at the Windows loading screen without any bars actually progressing.
I believe the problem is Windows is trying to boot from the second HDD I just don't know how to fix it.
Also last night I took everything out and apart to clean some dust after it was all said and done. I rebooted about 3 times just to make sure. There was no problems. The PC was off all day and when I tried to boot tonight ^^^^ happened.
Some other things I tried.......
I dissconected all other devices such as DVD-rom and external HDD to eliminate problems.
When i go into bios with only primary(WD) and the secondary(Seagate) connected to the mobo, the primary is the only HD detected.
I tried having only the second(Seagate) HD connected to the primary slot on the motherboard and I still get no detection out of the bios?
I am sure the HD (Seagate) is getting power because I can hear it and I eliminated that problem by trying different Power Cables
Has the Seagate seen its days?