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Hard Drive Prevents Windows from Booting?

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JayhaVVKU

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Well a few weeks ago I added a 200GB Seagate ATA HD to my system. It was set to slave and the boot was master, it's found in BIOS and boots ok even though Windows hangs for an extra few minutes.

Now Windows refuses to boot with the slave hard drive attached. I've tried formatting and a few other things but nothing seems to make Windows accept my second disk. It's still seen in the BIOS fine, but now when booting the OS it pauses for about 1 minute and then gives me a couple paragraph long error stating that I need to check my harddisk.

I thought maybe Windows repair(off the XP cd) might fix the problem, but it keeps asking for an admin password and won't accept the one I give.

Any ideas? Thanks.
 
Might want to recheck your jumper settings again. I know it sounds dumb but researching will find that some manufactures such as Western Digital will have two different jumper settings for single and dual hard drive setups. Also check with the Seagate or other HD website and see if the two hard drives have any other issues working together. I have found that some hard drives WILL NOT work on the same IDE channel. Had that problem in my server and had to stick one drive on an IDE controller card.
 
Well I have tried your suggestions, and I can't figure out what is going on. I double checked all jumper settings and they look fine.h I pulled out my other Hard Disk and have it setup to just boot from this Seagate. It will still hang for about 2 minutes before loading the Win XP CD from boot(which is odd since it's set to boot from CD before the HD). The Windows setup refuses to install on the drive because it says the disk is corrupt. The bootable seagate cd also seems to have problems and on the occasions it has booted correctly it will format the drive and say it is ready to go.

However I can get it recognized in Windows with my Maxtor drive(with XP pro booting). It does seem to transfer slowly but seems to generally work alright. I ran the Windows Seagate checks and it came back with no errors.

Is it just a messed up drive or is there something simple I'm overlooking?
 
Oops. that was a blank.

Anyway, check your BIOS for which drive is listed as "primary". I've had something like this happen before when I replaced a harddrive. Sometimes, the BIOS will list one harddrive as master without actually checking if it is a bootable drive, especially if you have a primary SATA HD.
 
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