- Dec 31, 2007
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To make a long story short, my boot harddrive for my Vista 64 computer failed, a Western Digital Caviar 500gig. I would start up, it would try to start Vista, then fail and restart and repeat the process, etc. Tried to run Vista Startup repair unsucessfully, and CHKDSK came back with hundreds of reports of unreadable file segments.
I didn't want to just format the drive since I've got all my files on it and was trying to see if I could still recover them in some way. So I bought a Seagate Barracuda 500gig, installed Vista onto the fresh drive, and it boots fine off of that. My plan was to use the new drive as the boot drive and see if I could just hook up the old one to run it as a D: drive so I could copy files off of it.
However, when I try to boot up my computer with both drives connected, Vista doesn't boot up right, it hangs at the Microsoft Corporation loading screen. When I power down and disconnect the broken WD drive and just boot from the new Seagate, it works fine. I've gone into the BIOS and the Seagate is at the first boot priority.
I'm not too knowledgeable about harddrives and tweaking BIOS settings so I'm not sure what's going on, it seems like powering on with both drives creates some sorta conflict. The old broken HD still has Vista installed onto it, is that the issue? I'm using an abit IP35 pro motherboard as well.
If anyone knows of something I could try I'd be most appreciative. My goal is to just boot off the new Seagate drive and see if the computer will register the failed Western Digital drive as a D: drive so I can see if any files are recoverable off of it.
I didn't want to just format the drive since I've got all my files on it and was trying to see if I could still recover them in some way. So I bought a Seagate Barracuda 500gig, installed Vista onto the fresh drive, and it boots fine off of that. My plan was to use the new drive as the boot drive and see if I could just hook up the old one to run it as a D: drive so I could copy files off of it.
However, when I try to boot up my computer with both drives connected, Vista doesn't boot up right, it hangs at the Microsoft Corporation loading screen. When I power down and disconnect the broken WD drive and just boot from the new Seagate, it works fine. I've gone into the BIOS and the Seagate is at the first boot priority.
I'm not too knowledgeable about harddrives and tweaking BIOS settings so I'm not sure what's going on, it seems like powering on with both drives creates some sorta conflict. The old broken HD still has Vista installed onto it, is that the issue? I'm using an abit IP35 pro motherboard as well.
If anyone knows of something I could try I'd be most appreciative. My goal is to just boot off the new Seagate drive and see if the computer will register the failed Western Digital drive as a D: drive so I can see if any files are recoverable off of it.