Vista won't boot after format of secondary drive

[markfinn_0]

I have a brand new computer (running Vista) with 2 drives - a 1 Tb
SATA drive (C: primary), and a 320 G IDE drive (D: secondary). System
booted up fine. I knew the IDE drive had errors on it, so I copied
everything I could to the C: drive and re-formatted D:. Normal
shutdown. Next reboot - all I got was the Microsoft "green line" for
about 10 seconds and a black screen. Safe mode showed it stopped at
CRCDISK.

What happened? Vista was pre-installed and I supplied the 320 G drive.
Did the format delete something off the D: drive that Vista was
expecting? Reliable sources say to disconnect the D: drive and
everything should work fine. If so - can I reconnect the drive and
assume normal operation?

Thanks for any help.

mf.

 

[Richard Urban]

Disconnect the 2nd drive. Does Vista boot? If so, don't just format the 2nd
drive. Delete all partitions and create a new partition. Then format the new
partition.

After you have done this, because there "may" be problems with the 2nd
drive - run chkdsk XXX: /f /r on the 2nd drive. This will check for errors
in the unused sectors (which will be pretty much all of them at this point).
If the drive doesn't pass - replace the drive.

 

[Charlie Tame]

I have a brand new computer (running Vista) with 2 drives - a 1 Tb
SATA drive (C: primary), and a 320 G IDE drive (D: secondary). System
booted up fine. I knew the IDE drive had errors on it, so I copied
everything I could to the C: drive and re-formatted D:. Normal
shutdown. Next reboot - all I got was the Microsoft "green line" for
about 10 seconds and a black screen. Safe mode showed it stopped at
CRCDISK.

What happened? Vista was pre-installed and I supplied the 320 G drive.
Did the format delete something off the D: drive that Vista was
expecting? Reliable sources say to disconnect the D: drive and
everything should work fine. If so - can I reconnect the drive and
assume normal operation?

Thanks for any help.

mf.

Does your BIOS have a key that allows you to choose the drive to boot
from? Mine is F12 but of course that is probably only for Gigabyte
motherboards.