I decided to replace a dying PATA drive with a new SATA drive yesterday and everything seemed to be working fine - I got all the data copied over and all was well. I then went and removed that PATA drive as well as another old PATA drive I didn't need any more. I also had a second SATA drive I bought just to have more space that I then installed.
When I restarted the computer, it hung at the black Windows XP logo screen. I've checked and re-checked the boot priority and SATA settings in the BIOS and everything seems fine - nothing has changed since it was originally working. I found that the only way to boot into XP normally now is to remove the first SATA drive I installed with all of the data on it and only have the second SATA drive connected. I tested each drive individually on each of the SATA connectors on my mobo and the drive with the data did not work on either port, while the one without worked fine on both.
I'm writing this now after successfully booting into XP's safe mode (with networking) with the drive with the data on it attached. Everything seems perfectly normal here, but I don't know why:
1. It refuses to boot normally with that one SATA drive connected, no matter which SATA connector it uses.
2. It successfully boots into safe mode, but not regularly.
Any ideas?
(Mobo is an Abit IS7 and HDs are seagate 7200.9's if that matters)
When I restarted the computer, it hung at the black Windows XP logo screen. I've checked and re-checked the boot priority and SATA settings in the BIOS and everything seems fine - nothing has changed since it was originally working. I found that the only way to boot into XP normally now is to remove the first SATA drive I installed with all of the data on it and only have the second SATA drive connected. I tested each drive individually on each of the SATA connectors on my mobo and the drive with the data did not work on either port, while the one without worked fine on both.
I'm writing this now after successfully booting into XP's safe mode (with networking) with the drive with the data on it attached. Everything seems perfectly normal here, but I don't know why:
1. It refuses to boot normally with that one SATA drive connected, no matter which SATA connector it uses.
2. It successfully boots into safe mode, but not regularly.
Any ideas?
(Mobo is an Abit IS7 and HDs are seagate 7200.9's if that matters)
