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2nd sataII HDD in vista
I recently set up my system with vista home premium on a "western-digital
200gb sataII hdd". Everything went fine no problems at all. A few days ago i bought a new HDD (exact same as above) exclusively for media (music/videos). I opened disk management, formatted the new drive and everything was fine. The problem began when i restarted, my pc now freezes at bios screen. So i unplugged the drive and restarted. once my system restarted i plugged the 2nd drive back in and nothing happened, so i went to device management refreshed disk device and it appeared again, then went to disk management utility and everything appeared fine. Restarted, and again it freezes at bios screen. So this is where i am stuck.... can anyone help?? **p.s. when it freezes i am unable to open up bios display. i have to unplug 2nd drive and restart. but i am sure you can imagine.. the disk is not in bios. |
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2nd sataII HDD in vista
This kinda of BIOS "freezing" is common with new technologies. I had issues
with another generation of mother boards that would freeze the BIOS if I had a USB memory stick plugged in with a bootable sector. When it was trying to automatically detect drives (i.e. IDE HDD and CDROMS) it would freeze. Taking the USB memory stick out and booting again would be fine. If you are using an E-SATA port and the drive is in an external case, you might have to suffer waiting until the computer proceedes past the drive detection process before you plug it in. I know it's a pain in the arse but there might be no immediate solution. Try checking for BIOS updates for your mother board. I don't advise mother board BIOS flash updates unless you are comfortable with doing it and understand the consiquences if something goes wrong. "slemakerdc" wrote: I recently set up my system with vista home premium on a "western-digital 200gb sataII hdd". Everything went fine no problems at all. A few days ago i bought a new HDD (exact same as above) exclusively for media (music/videos). I opened disk management, formatted the new drive and everything was fine. The problem began when i restarted, my pc now freezes at bios screen. So i unplugged the drive and restarted. once my system restarted i plugged the 2nd drive back in and nothing happened, so i went to device management refreshed disk device and it appeared again, then went to disk management utility and everything appeared fine. Restarted, and again it freezes at bios screen. So this is where i am stuck.... can anyone help?? **p.s. when it freezes i am unable to open up bios display. i have to unplug 2nd drive and restart. but i am sure you can imagine.. the disk is not in bios. |
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2nd sataII HDD in vista
I just got a Compaq presario with vista basic on, it has a 250gb SATA II
drive so i added my 350gb IDE drive and it wouldn't boot either, what i did see was in the bios my IDE drive was chosen to be the 2nd boot device after my dvd drive. I couldn't change it at this screen but found out this Compaq sets device class booting orders to, dvd/cd drives first and hdd's 2nd, at this screen i could choose which hdd to be default boot device. Probably your pc as 2 conflicting boot drives to and thus cant choose what to boot from. "Andrew McNab" wrote: This kinda of BIOS "freezing" is common with new technologies. I had issues with another generation of mother boards that would freeze the BIOS if I had a USB memory stick plugged in with a bootable sector. When it was trying to automatically detect drives (i.e. IDE HDD and CDROMS) it would freeze. Taking the USB memory stick out and booting again would be fine. If you are using an E-SATA port and the drive is in an external case, you might have to suffer waiting until the computer proceedes past the drive detection process before you plug it in. I know it's a pain in the arse but there might be no immediate solution. Try checking for BIOS updates for your mother board. I don't advise mother board BIOS flash updates unless you are comfortable with doing it and understand the consiquences if something goes wrong. "slemakerdc" wrote: I recently set up my system with vista home premium on a "western-digital 200gb sataII hdd". Everything went fine no problems at all. A few days ago i bought a new HDD (exact same as above) exclusively for media (music/videos). I opened disk management, formatted the new drive and everything was fine. The problem began when i restarted, my pc now freezes at bios screen. So i unplugged the drive and restarted. once my system restarted i plugged the 2nd drive back in and nothing happened, so i went to device management refreshed disk device and it appeared again, then went to disk management utility and everything appeared fine. Restarted, and again it freezes at bios screen. So this is where i am stuck.... can anyone help?? **p.s. when it freezes i am unable to open up bios display. i have to unplug 2nd drive and restart. but i am sure you can imagine.. the disk is not in bios. |
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2nd sataII HDD in vista
Thanks for your response! Yeah i believe it is just a bios issue and not a
Vista issue. In my BIOS i have fooled w/ the boot sequence a bit but still no luck. I am currently using: 1st-DVDrom, 2nd-HDD, 3rd-HDD.... But as you can see i cannot specify which HDD to boot FIRST. Which really blows. haha to say the least. Anyway. Any more suggestions would be appreciated. It only seems logical to me that in the boot sequence it would try and identify a boot file and if it does not find one on one HDD then it would go to the next..... but that i know is a bit too much to ask for a machine to do... "Andrew McNab" wrote: This kinda of BIOS "freezing" is common with new technologies. I had issues with another generation of mother boards that would freeze the BIOS if I had a USB memory stick plugged in with a bootable sector. When it was trying to automatically detect drives (i.e. IDE HDD and CDROMS) it would freeze. Taking the USB memory stick out and booting again would be fine. If you are using an E-SATA port and the drive is in an external case, you might have to suffer waiting until the computer proceedes past the drive detection process before you plug it in. I know it's a pain in the arse but there might be no immediate solution. Try checking for BIOS updates for your mother board. I don't advise mother board BIOS flash updates unless you are comfortable with doing it and understand the consiquences if something goes wrong. "slemakerdc" wrote: I recently set up my system with vista home premium on a "western-digital 200gb sataII hdd". Everything went fine no problems at all. A few days ago i bought a new HDD (exact same as above) exclusively for media (music/videos). I opened disk management, formatted the new drive and everything was fine. The problem began when i restarted, my pc now freezes at bios screen. So i unplugged the drive and restarted. once my system restarted i plugged the 2nd drive back in and nothing happened, so i went to device management refreshed disk device and it appeared again, then went to disk management utility and everything appeared fine. Restarted, and again it freezes at bios screen. So this is where i am stuck.... can anyone help?? **p.s. when it freezes i am unable to open up bios display. i have to unplug 2nd drive and restart. but i am sure you can imagine.. the disk is not in bios. |
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2nd sataII HDD in vista
In some BIOSes there is a second menu to specify the HDD boot order when
there are several HDDs. If your boot option is listed only as HDD I would expect to see the second menu somewhere nearby. The HDD firmware version can be an issue with some motherboards, as can the BIOS version. The disks may not have the same firmware version. Is your original HDD plugged to SATA port 1 and the newer one to SATA 2 or higher? There might be a fault on one of the HDDs. Try running Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic from http://support.wdc.com/download/downloadxml.asp Since your system is freezing at the BIOS screen, the problem is most likely to be hardware related. Look at your motherboard manufacturer's forums to see if others are reporting similar problems. "slemakerdc" wrote in message ... Thanks for your response! Yeah i believe it is just a bios issue and not a Vista issue. In my BIOS i have fooled w/ the boot sequence a bit but still no luck. I am currently using: 1st-DVDrom, 2nd-HDD, 3rd-HDD.... But as you can see i cannot specify which HDD to boot FIRST. Which really blows. haha to say the least. Anyway. Any more suggestions would be appreciated. It only seems logical to me that in the boot sequence it would try and identify a boot file and if it does not find one on one HDD then it would go to the next..... but that i know is a bit too much to ask for a machine to do... "Andrew McNab" wrote: This kinda of BIOS "freezing" is common with new technologies. I had issues with another generation of mother boards that would freeze the BIOS if I had a USB memory stick plugged in with a bootable sector. When it was trying to automatically detect drives (i.e. IDE HDD and CDROMS) it would freeze. Taking the USB memory stick out and booting again would be fine. If you are using an E-SATA port and the drive is in an external case, you might have to suffer waiting until the computer proceedes past the drive detection process before you plug it in. I know it's a pain in the arse but there might be no immediate solution. Try checking for BIOS updates for your mother board. I don't advise mother board BIOS flash updates unless you are comfortable with doing it and understand the consiquences if something goes wrong. "slemakerdc" wrote: I recently set up my system with vista home premium on a "western-digital 200gb sataII hdd". Everything went fine no problems at all. A few days ago i bought a new HDD (exact same as above) exclusively for media (music/videos). I opened disk management, formatted the new drive and everything was fine. The problem began when i restarted, my pc now freezes at bios screen. So i unplugged the drive and restarted. once my system restarted i plugged the 2nd drive back in and nothing happened, so i went to device management refreshed disk device and it appeared again, then went to disk management utility and everything appeared fine. Restarted, and again it freezes at bios screen. So this is where i am stuck.... can anyone help?? **p.s. when it freezes i am unable to open up bios display. i have to unplug 2nd drive and restart. but i am sure you can imagine.. the disk is not in bios. |
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2nd sataII HDD in vista
I have seen this happen when creating a partition on a new hard drive using
Vista Disk Management. But, it doesn't happen all the time. I believe it has to do with the fact that Vista only creates primary partitions. Whenever you install a 2nd, 3rd etc. drive it should really be formatted as a logical partition. I know there will be fights about this statement but there is no reason that I can discern that data need be kept in a primary partition. I did a bit of detective work by booting up using the Acronis Disk Director Suite CD. What I have found in 4-5 instances is that there is a boot flag that has been set on the second hard drive (it doesn't happen all the time). I removed the boot flag from the 2nd drive, removed the CD and rebooted the computer. Everything was now fine. www.acronis.com -- Regards, Richard Urban Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User (For email, remove the obvious from my address) "slemakerdc" wrote in message ... I recently set up my system with vista home premium on a "western-digital 200gb sataII hdd". Everything went fine no problems at all. A few days ago i bought a new HDD (exact same as above) exclusively for media (music/videos). I opened disk management, formatted the new drive and everything was fine. The problem began when i restarted, my pc now freezes at bios screen. So i unplugged the drive and restarted. once my system restarted i plugged the 2nd drive back in and nothing happened, so i went to device management refreshed disk device and it appeared again, then went to disk management utility and everything appeared fine. Restarted, and again it freezes at bios screen. So this is where i am stuck.... can anyone help?? **p.s. when it freezes i am unable to open up bios display. i have to unplug 2nd drive and restart. but i am sure you can imagine.. the disk is not in bios. |