Secondary Hard Drive preventing Windows from booting.

[bzdsftw]

Hi. I'm using an OCZ vertex 4 as a boot drive and a 3 year old WD cav. black 500gb as a storage drive. Just a few hours ago, my computer suddenly restarted itself. While it usually takes less than 20s to boot up, my computer stalled at the windows loading screen for more than 2 minutes. Upon entering the desktop, I realised that the 500gb drive was not detected. I powered off my computer, unplugged the 500gb drive and everything was fine. I cannot use the windows cd to format the drive as it just hangs at the start. I can't enter my OS with the 500gb drive plugged into the motherboard. Please help.

 

[jwl2]

Check the boot order in the bios.

 

[goaten]

Check the boot order in the bios.

dude please...

I am having a similar issue... I don't really expect anyone to answer this within a week so I'm just gonna keep searching other places instead... :/

 

[KyleTomashek]

Check the boot order in the bios.

dude please...

I am having a similar issue... I don't really expect anyone to answer this within a week so I'm just gonna keep searching other places instead... :/

Similar problems here, windows 8.1 installed on disk 0[ssd], windows 7 installed on disk 1[ssd], storage on disk 2[hdd], and my games installed on disk 3[ssd] no partitions besides the mbr on disk 0. it was working fine then one day it hung at the windows loading screen on both OS's. unplugged disk 3 and they boot up fine. neither OS's will boot into the desktop with that disk plugged in.

 

[goaten]

My hard drive turned out to have crashed. It's on service right now. Seemed pretty serious they need a donator HDD for parts to be able to salvage the data. So yeah if this happens it's very likely that your HDD is in a very bad state and if you manage to boot, back up your data asap.