SomeoneX,
Disk drives take a lot of power just to spin up at boot time and if your
boot disk does not spin up in time the system will not boot.
One way to get around this problem is to have an optical drive selected in
your BIOS as the primary boot device and for it to always have a disk in it.
Then when you boot and are asked to hit any key to continue to boot from the
optical drive just let the prompt time out since that will provide the time
for all of the HDDs to spin up.

"David Vair" wrote in message
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Might be a power issue as 2 drives will boot fine but all 3 don't.
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David Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+


"SomeoneX" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have just installed Vista Ultimate 64 Bit (on my 500 GB Seagate hard
disk, the main hard disk).

Then, I added 2 more hard disks (a 1 TB Hitachi and another 500 GB
Seagate), so now I have 3 SATA hard disks installed.

However, Vista cannot start. Sometimes, it stuck on the boot screen
(the one with the scrolling green bar), sometimes it just show black
blank screen.

I then tried to disconnect, completely, the 2 hard disks I just
installed. Vista can boot properly, I can access my data from both hard
disks without problem.

When only the 1 TB Hitachi and the main hard disk are connected, Vista
can boot properly and I can access my data from both hard disks without
problem.

When only the other 500 GB Seagate and the main hard disk are
connected, Vista can boot properly, I can access my data from both hard
disks without problem.

However, if I connect the 3 hard disks at the same time, vista doesn't
want to boot. I already installed the SATA controller driver from the CD
that comes with the motherboard.

Also, Safe Mode doesn't help.

My system spec:
- Motherboard: Asus Striker Extreme
- Processor: Intel Core2Duo Dual Core 2.4 Ghz
- RAM: 4 GB (4x1 GB) DDR2
- Graphic Card: Nvidia 8800GTS, from ASUS
- 2 DVD Writers (LG and Sony), both IDE
- 1 Floppy Disk Drive

Please help me. I really need to connect them all because they all
contain data.

Thanks.


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SomeoneX