[SOLVED] Hard Drive is not letting Os boot up

[taxalig]

I have a Gigabyte GA G41M Combo motherboard with 2 hard drives Seagate Barracuda 80GB and Western Digital Green 500GB. My Operating system Windows 7 is installed on the 80 GB hard drive. Now the problem i have started to face is that my windows boots up only if i connect the 80 gb hard drive. When i connect both the hard drives together, the windows gets stuck at the Starting Windows screen and refuses to boot up. Earlier they were connected together and worked fine. Pls help me i want to upgrade this system for gaming

 

[seagate_surfer]

taxalig, seems like the larger drive is causing you problems. Try the affected drive in another unit. Does it show up in the BIOS?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Boot from windows installation media into command prompt and run chkdsk /f on 500GB drive.

 

[taxalig]

taxalig, seems like the larger drive is causing you problems. Try the affected drive in another unit. Does it show up in the BIOS?

It appears both in the bios and the hardware components list that appears right after we turn on our pc.

 

[seagate_surfer]

taxalig, seems like the larger drive is causing you problems. Try the affected drive in another unit. Does it show up in the BIOS?

It appears both in the bios and the hardware components list that appears right after we turn on our pc.

If the computer boots with that drive, run the manufactures testing software to see what the results are.

 

[taxalig]

taxalig, seems like the larger drive is causing you problems. Try the affected drive in another unit. Does it show up in the BIOS?

It appears both in the bios and the hardware components list that appears right after we turn on our pc.

If the computer boots with that drive, run the manufactures testing software to see what the results are.

How to do the manufacture test

 

[seagate_surfer]

taxalig, follow this link and instructions.

 

[taxalig]

taxalig, follow this link and instructions.

On connecting both the drives together, i never reach the account selection screen so i can't install any software and test it

 

[seagate_surfer]

taxalig, follow this link and instructions.

On connecting both the drives together, i never reach the account selection screen so i can't install any software and test it

That leads me to believe the drive is on its last legs. Not much to do.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you try booting from windows installation media and running chkdsk as suggested above?

 

[taxalig]

Did you try booting from windows installation media and running chkdsk as suggested above?

Actually my pc came after repair and when i plugged in the 2 hadrd disks then the 500gb hard disk is not allowing the boot process to complete. Do i have to reinstall windows in my pc??

 

[SkyNetRising]

Your windows is fine, since it boots from 80GB drive.
You have to fix file system errors on 500GB drive. Be ready, that it may be damaged and un-repairable.

 

[taxalig]

Your windows is fine, since it boots from 80GB drive.
You have to fix file system errors on 500GB drive. Be ready, that it may be damaged and un-repairable.

Isn't there any method by wguch i can extract the files from the hdd before it gets damaged.

 

[taxalig]

Your windows is fine, since it boots from 80GB drive.
You have to fix file system errors on 500GB drive. Be ready, that it may be damaged and un-repairable.

 

[taxalig]

Your windows is fine, since it boots from 80GB drive.
You have to fix file system errors on 500GB drive. Be ready, that it may be damaged and un-repairable.

Can i first boot the os frok the 80gb hard drive and then connect the 500gb hard drive after the os boots up. Would it work?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can i first boot the os frok the 80gb hard drive and then connect the 500gb hard drive after the os boots up. Would it work?

That would work only, if hot-plug feature is enabled in BIOS for sata port, where 500GB drive is connected (this feature may not be available on every motherboard).

Why can't you boot from windows installation media instead?