Windows hangs on startup with new secondary drive

[Guest]

Hi all,

I recently purchased a new Seagate 320GB SATA drive to use for storage. My
primary (C drive is a Maxtor 250GB PATA.

The new drive installed fine and worked the first time through. However, on
subsequent reboots, Window hangs at startup. The system starts up fine when I
remove th SATA drive.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!

 

[Laogui32]

My first response was to question your primary/secondary jumpers on the main
drive - surely you must have changed it to accommodate the two drives? You
didn't mention it, but if you can remove the second drive and it works then
the setup must be expecting only one drive?

That would be too simple and too silly if true, so sorry if I offend...

 

[Ron Sommer]

The primary drive is connected to an IDE connector.
There was no need to change any jumpers.
--
Ron Sommer

: My first response was to question your primary/secondary jumpers on the
main
: drive - surely you must have changed it to accommodate the two drives?
You
: didn't mention it, but if you can remove the second drive and it works
then
: the setup must be expecting only one drive?
:
: That would be too simple and too silly if true, so sorry if I offend...
:
: : > Hi all,
: >
: > I recently purchased a new Seagate 320GB SATA drive to use for storage.
My
: > primary (C drive is a Maxtor 250GB PATA.
: >
: > The new drive installed fine and worked the first time through. However,
: > on
: > subsequent reboots, Window hangs at startup. The system starts up fine
: > when I
: > remove th SATA drive.
: >
: > Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks!
: >
: >
: >
: >
:
:

 

[Bob I]

Is the BIOS set to try booting from SATA? That would not be good.

 

[cuba]

I would guess that it did not "install fine" but installed in a way
which Windows "guessed" (or "assumed") was correct, and actually
installed the wrong or out of date driver. Subsequent boots hanging
indicates that this is so.

(I Assume that your PC has both PATA and SATA ports and that you did
not manage to put the SATA in a PATA connector--which would be
interesting. Or that you meant your primary is SATA as well.)

SATA drives generally do not need jumpers. They are also generally
backward compatible. If your PC is old (what's old these days? eight,
nine months?) it's probably a driver problem.