I recently helped a friend of mine get 2 computers up and running from various parts that were donated to him by various friends. We managed to get one up and running perfectly fine, installed windows 7 and everything was good to go.
With the other computer we realized that the IDE drive we had left would not work with it because the motherboard did not carry an IDE port. So we went and purchased a 500GB WD BLUE HD for relatively cheap. I decided that we would use this new hard drive in the computer that we just finished installing windows 7 on, because this was his gaming machine. I figured we would take out the current drive and put the new one in, and run the same windows installation process that we previously went through on the other drive.
We disconnected the current drive, popped the WD BLUE drive in and realized that we could not get past the boot screen. The motherboard screen popped up with the various options such as boot menu, or bios. We couldn't go past this screen, nor could we access the bios, everything just froze. I was not sure what we could do because I went through every trouble shooting method I could think of and nothing worked.
I figured we must have gotten a defective drive, because as soon as we popped the old drive back in, it booted into windows fine, and never froze at the post screen. I decided to see if it was defective or not, I took the WD BLUE to the other computer and popped it in, to my surprise it posted and booted into the windows installation without a problem, I decided not to do any further testing so I just installed windows and called it good.
This issue however has been bothering me ever since. Why did the hard drive not work on one computer, but it magically worked on the other? Should I have plugged it into another sata port or something? I cant see how that would affect it, but it definitely would of been worth a shot. If anyone can think of why this happened I would definitely appreciate the input. Thank you, and sorry for dragging the story on.
With the other computer we realized that the IDE drive we had left would not work with it because the motherboard did not carry an IDE port. So we went and purchased a 500GB WD BLUE HD for relatively cheap. I decided that we would use this new hard drive in the computer that we just finished installing windows 7 on, because this was his gaming machine. I figured we would take out the current drive and put the new one in, and run the same windows installation process that we previously went through on the other drive.
We disconnected the current drive, popped the WD BLUE drive in and realized that we could not get past the boot screen. The motherboard screen popped up with the various options such as boot menu, or bios. We couldn't go past this screen, nor could we access the bios, everything just froze. I was not sure what we could do because I went through every trouble shooting method I could think of and nothing worked.
I figured we must have gotten a defective drive, because as soon as we popped the old drive back in, it booted into windows fine, and never froze at the post screen. I decided to see if it was defective or not, I took the WD BLUE to the other computer and popped it in, to my surprise it posted and booted into the windows installation without a problem, I decided not to do any further testing so I just installed windows and called it good.
This issue however has been bothering me ever since. Why did the hard drive not work on one computer, but it magically worked on the other? Should I have plugged it into another sata port or something? I cant see how that would affect it, but it definitely would of been worth a shot. If anyone can think of why this happened I would definitely appreciate the input. Thank you, and sorry for dragging the story on.
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