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Hi folks
I had a sata drive on my system as a spare slave drive that I use to keep music/movies etc on.
The thing has just upped and died.
My system won't boot at all with this sata drive connected. It just hangs.
If I remove the cable. The system resumes loading and works just fine.
Is there any way to get this thing to start again so that I can at least rescue some of the data held on it.
Any assistance apreciated.
Details of my system are in my signature
Last edited by midgo; 24-06-2007 at 05:26 AM.
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What happened from when it worked till when it didn't?
Are you sure your Boot Menu in the BIOS is set for the boot drive and not this SATA drive?
If the boot drive is a SATA drive are you sure the correct SATA drive is first in line to boot?
What do you mean by "hang"?
Black screen > blinking cursor?
Or... ???
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System was working fine, I was downloading some files.Originally Posted by jephree
Then the computer just stopped responding.
I coulldn't shut it down normally so I had to use the reset button.
When it rebooted after the windows welcome screen came up the system just hung there and did nothing stuck on a blank screen.
I tried a reset again and still nothing after the welcome sign.
When I disconnected the sata cable the system re-commenced with its bootup and loaded and runs just fine.
As I have a dual boot system I tried this in Vista as well and the same thing happened.
The system started got to the microsoft corporation sign with the green moving bars and just hung there until the sata cable was removed.
It then continued with the boot up as normal.
Sata drive is just a data drive it is not a boot drive.
It seems like the sata drive is stopping the system from completing its boot up until disconnected and then it resumes the bootup.
Last edited by midgo; 24-06-2007 at 07:03 AM.
