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Windows Vista hard drive troubles

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by tmarks, 2008/03/26.

  1. 2008/03/26
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    Good morning Everyone, I am having trouble with my hard drives, after downloading sp1 for vista my computer won't boot up if I have all the hard drives connected, the hard drives are master, slave, and sata, As long as I have just the main HD connected it will bootup, does anyone have any suggestions
     
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    Which of the three drives has Vista on it?
     
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    the master is IDE , only have the one OS It will not boot up if i have the other IDE drive connected, It worked fine untill i installed SP1 But I dont know if that has anything to do with it, have ordered new cables, will get them next week and
     
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    I have the problem fixed , I changed the slave IDE drive to the secondary IDE as slave and it reconizies every thing
     
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    Great. Thanks for posting back.
     
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    Hi Steve do you no any reason suggestions on why the drive would not be reconised on the number 1 IDE as a slave drive
     
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    It will depend on which point the system stopped booting. If it was before Vista started loading it may be a problem (change) with the Master Boot Records (MBR). If Vista stopped while loading, check for updated motherboard chipset drivers and SATA/RAID drivers. If it happened after log-on it may a file checking program like an antivirus.

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    Thanks mattman cannot say if it booted up complete or no as i turn on the computer an go for coffee. but i have up dated all the drivers.
     
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    "Thanks for posting back "...again :). If you describe what state the computer was in when you returned with the coffee it may help...you...us...and others. Was the computer powered on? Was there any error message? Was it just a blank screen? Blank screen with a flashing cursor? Was it a frozen Windows screen?

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    The screen was black with the message stating it could not find an operating system. I tried different IDE cables but That did not help it is now on the registering as the secondary master in the bios, so I will be leaving it like that for now
     
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    Interesting, thanks.
     
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    Just a Update I have fixed the problem it seams the power supply was starting to to show problems installed a new psu and connected everything the it was before and it is working fine
    Tom
     
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