[SOLVED] PC not booting with dead storage harddrive

[mitchmatch]

So a couple of days ago my NON OS harddrive stopped showing up in the file explorer so I unplugged and re plugged it in and it started working again.

Now to today my pc will hang on the bios start up screen and be unable to progress into windows or into the bios settings unless the drive is removed.

Is this normal behavior for a dead drive or is this another issue?

I have tried a different cable and port, clearing bios settings. Only thing to seemingly fix it was removing the suspected dead drive.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, a dead drive can prevent the system starting up.

If by removing it, the system works....then the dead drive was the cause.

 

[mitchmatch]

Yes, a dead drive can prevent the system starting up.

If by removing it, the system works....then the dead drive was the cause.

First time this has happened to me so thanks for confirming my suspicious and give me some peace of mind!