papalazarou

Hi Chaps, again thanks for the replies. Confirm they are both Sata drives, and the main (new) drive is on SATA1, old non-working drive on SATA2. Thanks to Psefrank - I didn't think I needed to do anything with jumpers and your post confirmed it. I've tried setting it as second boot device in BIOS and also disabling the 2nd/3rd boot devices but the same thing occurs. I've also checked all connections for everything else - with the new drive connected - boot no problem, with both drives connected, just keeps restarting. Looks like I'm buggered! :( I'll try and find another machine and see if I get the same fault.

Thanks for the replies guys. I haven't set any jumpers when have both sata drives connected, but I have been into bios and set it so it only boots from the newer drive with the clean install on and disable the second and third boot device. The same thing occurs - just before the windows screen appears, the system restarts. Seems very strange as surely the second hard drive should not affect the first one booting into windows?

Hi hoping somebody can help me. Bit of a novice so please bare with me. Had a WD2500KS with Windows XP Media Centre, Motherboard Asus A8N32-SLI. Recently seemed to contract a fairly nasty virus with AVG got rid of, but then it failed to boot - it would crash when it got to the Windows XP loading screen. I picked up another hard drive, a Samsung HD502HJ which a friend had going spare, formatted and did a clean install and its working fine. However, If I connect the old WD drive to try and recover some of the data off the drive (Photos, music etc), Windows fails to load. Disconnect it and it works fine again. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is their a conflict between the drives? Any help would be greatfully recieved. :)