Installed a second HDD, but now my PC won't boot?

[mcloud777]

I installed my new HDD lastnight and now my PC won't boot up.

Here is what I know from the BIOS screen:

SATA 1 = My WD Raptor Drive
SATA 2 = MY DVD-RW Rom Drive
SATA 4 = My WD 640mb Drive

Boot Priority:

1. Raptor HDD
2. 640WD HDD


When the system turns on and boots up I get an error say resume system from previous location failed please choose from two options.

1. Continue with resume
2. Delete Restoration

I was unable to select either of these with my keyboard for some reason the up and down arrows were not working when I got to this screen. My guess is that I changed around the SATA connectors on my drives when I installed the new HDD and now my system can't find my Raptor which is my boot drive for Windows. What should I do be in the BIOS it dectects the new HDD and my Raptor and my DVD RW drive. My DVD rom drive is using an IDE cable not SATA, maybe I should just remove that drive and keep the DVD-RW drive in?

 

[TemjinGold]

Possible that 640mb drive you just put in is too old?

 

[mcloud777]

Originally posted by: TemjinGold
Possible that 640mb drive you just put in is too old?[/N

No it is brand new I just got it from newegg.com. Look at my sig the model is WD new 640 HDD model.

 

[webada]

DVD-ROM is IDE, should have conflicts with others.

I would unplug everything and leave only your boot drive attached. Get a successful boot up to windows first, shutdown, then reattach other SATA devices, leave dvd-rw last.

if this doesn't work, clear your cmos and repeat.

 

[mcloud777]

Originally posted by: webada
DVD-ROM is IDE, should have conflicts with others.

I would unplug everything and leave only your boot drive attached. Get a successful boot up to windows first, shutdown, then reattach other SATA devices, leave dvd-rw last.

if this doesn't work, clear your cmos and repeat.

Do I need to set the boot priority to the WD Raptor in BIOS if I do this? Also do I even need the DVD Rom drive with the ide connection since I have a DVD-RW drive that is SATA?

 

[webada]

Originally posted by: mcloud777

Originally posted by: webada
DVD-ROM is IDE, should have conflicts with others.

I would unplug everything and leave only your boot drive attached. Get a successful boot up to windows first, shutdown, then reattach other SATA devices, leave dvd-rw last.

if this doesn't work, clear your cmos and repeat.

Do I need to set the boot priority to the WD Raptor in BIOS if I do this? Also do I even need the DVD Rom drive with the ide connection since I have a DVD-RW drive that is SATA?

You shouldn't need to set priority if WD Raptor is the only HD that's connect, once you start plugging others you should check to make sure that WD Raptor is set before other HD.

Unless your DVD-Rom is servicing some special purpose (ie, direct play, output to sound card) then you shouldn't need it if you have a DVD-RW.

 

[mcloud777]

I unplugged all the drives but the raptor and my system still cant find the HDD to boot from, so I just need to clear cmos then and try it again? If that fails again do I need to do a clean install?

 

[Crizza]

Sounds like it's possible that when the other hdd was added, the MBR or boot sector got corrupted.

Boot from an XP cd and run recovery console and try running fixboot and fixmbr commands, if the console even can see the install, that is.

One other thing is there any chance you have an external HDD hooked up? Last time I ran into this, the crappy USB enclosure spazzed out my mobo.

 

[mcloud777]

I got it to work! Thanks everyone for the help!

 

[webada]

What was your resolution?

 

[Slowlearner]

Yes, it would help us all.