I removed a hdd and then placed it back no windows 7 is not loading.

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  1. Posts : 92
    Windows 7 Home x64 & Windows XP Pro x86
       #1

    I removed a hdd and then placed it back no windows 7 is not loading.


    Quick description. i Removed the HDD froma computer, plugged it into a different pc then back. windows failed to load. now, HDD is unplugged and windows 7 starts up ok.

    More Info,

    -i placed a 3tb seagate drive into an enclosure and plugged the enclosure into a windows xp x86 system. the hdd was not valid.
    - I loaded up my win7 pc without the drive attached.
    - I plugged the enclosure into my win7 pc. It worked.
    - I put the HDD back into the Win7 pc internally.
    - Windows did not start up. It got stuck on the pulsating windows logo. I waited 15 minutes and the turned the machine off.
    - I loaded up the winxp sp3 dual boot on my win7 machine. i did not install any new hardware,
    - Restart of the computer. I selected win7 and a pre windows message said that winodws could not load. 2 options were given. 1/ attempt to fix and 2/ load windows normally.
    - I selected to attempt a fix, it could not fix the issue.
    - I then attempted to load as normal... it failed. i again turned the machine off.
    - i removed the HDD from my win7 machine. it seemed that i had unplugged my reset swith io jumper. when i initially removed the hdd.
    - I switched on the pc and it started up as normal.

    Thank you for your time and patience.
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  2. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #2

    Trying to get a picture of this...

    There are 3 machines:

    1. A PC with 2 OS's (W7 & XP) - PC#1
    2. A PC with XP only - PC#2
    3. An External enclosure

    There are 3 Hard Drives:

    1. A primary drive in PC #1 with W7 & XP on it
    2. A primary drive in PC #2
    3. A 3TB secondary drive that is the "traveler" between the 3 machines.

    Questions:

    1. What is on the secondary (3TB) drive? Is there an OS on that drive?
    2. Did the contents of the 3TB drive change from the time it was in PC#1 to the time it was in the enclosure?
    3. What is the boot order in the BIOS on PC#1? Does it boot from USB before HDD?
    4. Is the 3TB drive marked as "Active" in Disk Management?
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  3. Posts : 92
    Windows 7 Home x64 & Windows XP Pro x86
    Thread Starter
       #3

    TVeblen said:
    Trying to get a picture of this...

    There are 3 machines:

    1. A PC with 2 OS's (W7 & XP) - PC#1
    2. A PC with XP only - PC#2
    3. An External enclosure

    There are 3 Hard Drives:

    1. A primary drive in PC #1 with W7 & XP on it
    2. A primary drive in PC #2
    3. A 3TB secondary drive that is the "traveler" between the 3 machines.

    Questions:

    1. What is on the secondary (3TB) drive? Is there an OS on that drive?
    2. Did the contents of the 3TB drive change from the time it was in PC#1 to the time it was in the enclosure?
    3. What is the boot order in the BIOS on PC#1? Does it boot from USB before HDD?
    4. Is the 3TB drive marked as "Active" in Disk Management?
    1. Nothing. No OS. It was meant as a storage drive.
    2. Unknown, but unlikely considering its a formatted but empty drive.
    3. boot order is only boot drive then cdrom. unchanged.
    4. it was initially, but after i took it out then put it back in. i doubt it changed. i couldnt get into windows to see anyway. driveis disconnected at the moment.

    thank you for your time by the way.
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  4. Posts : 1,533
    Windows 7 Professional x64 Service Pack 1
       #4

    Jonesie85 said:
    TVeblen said:
    Trying to get a picture of this...

    There are 3 machines:

    1. A PC with 2 OS's (W7 & XP) - PC#1
    2. A PC with XP only - PC#2
    3. An External enclosure
    There are 3 Hard Drives:

    1. A primary drive in PC #1 with W7 & XP on it
    2. A primary drive in PC #2
    3. A 3TB secondary drive that is the "traveler" between the 3 machines.
    Questions:

    1. What is on the secondary (3TB) drive? Is there an OS on that drive?
    2. Did the contents of the 3TB drive change from the time it was in PC#1 to the time it was in the enclosure?
    3. What is the boot order in the BIOS on PC#1? Does it boot from USB before HDD?
    4. Is the 3TB drive marked as "Active" in Disk Management?
    1. Nothing. No OS. It was meant as a storage drive.
    2. Unknown, but unlikely considering its a formatted but empty drive.
    3. boot order is only boot drive then cdrom. unchanged.
    4. it was initially, but after i took it out then put it back in. i doubt it changed. i couldnt get into windows to see anyway. driveis disconnected at the moment.

    thank you for your time by the way.
    Try this tutorial: Troubleshooting Windows 7 Failure to Boot
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  5. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #5

    The ACTIVE flag will remain on the partition on the external drive until you manually remove it. Unplugging it does not change anything.

    I would try removing the active flag:
    If there is no data on the drive then you can just delete the partition in Disk Management, creating just unallocated space. Then create a new volume (partition) and format it NTFS, but don't make it Active.

    To do this you should have the drive in the enclosure (since you can use it with W7 that way). I can't say this will solve the problem but we have seen Windows balk at 2 active drives on a system.

    If the drive does have data on it then you can remove the active flag this way:
    Partition - Mark as Inactive
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  6. Posts : 92
    Windows 7 Home x64 & Windows XP Pro x86
    Thread Starter
       #6

    TVeblen said:
    The ACTIVE flag will remain on the partition on the external drive until you manually remove it. Unplugging it does not change anything.

    I would try removing the active flag:
    If there is no data on the drive then you can just delete the partition in Disk Management, creating just unallocated space. Then create a new volume (partition) and format it NTFS, but don't make it Active.

    To do this you should have the drive in the enclosure (since you can use it with W7 that way). I can't say this will solve the problem but we have seen Windows balk at 2 active drives on a system.

    If the drive does have data on it then you can remove the active flag this way:
    Partition - Mark as Inactive
    hello, i tried using the enclosure to access the drive. i then deleted the partition and then i re partitioned it to maximum however. the enclosure only allows 750ish gb hdd maimum. i tried plugging the hdd through the usb enclosure on a system startup to see what happens. the machine pops up saying something about appropriate boot drive location. in the bios it isnt set as a bootable hdd. even though my boot order has hdd as 1st boot in the list of bootable hdd's i have disabled the seagate 3tb hdd.

    i have used seagates discwizard software on the drive. to create a partition. no success. i would attache the drive to my second machine but it is windows xp and also does not recognise more than 750gbs of the 3000gb hdd.

    NOTE: Enclosure = Sumvision 3.5" Apex USB 3.0 External SATA HDD Enclosure

    thank you for your time and patience.
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  7. Posts : 2,171
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #7

    This info may be helpful to you, regarding drives larger than 2TB:

    Everything You Need to Know About 3TB Hard Drives | PCWorld
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  8. Posts : 92
    Windows 7 Home x64 & Windows XP Pro x86
    Thread Starter
       #8

    the hdd initially formatted on my win7 machine at the full 3tb single partition and i was able to transfer data to the drive so i believe that my machine can handle a 3tb drive. anyway got any other suggestions or translations?
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  9. Posts : 2,171
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #9

    Well I think if you installed and used it only on the w7 64 bit machine then you would have no problems/issues, as w7 64 handles that size out-of-the-box.

    But using it in a portable manner will likely result in some issues (formatted with a single 3TB partition).
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  10. Posts : 6,292
    Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
       #10

    Can you post a screenshot of the Disk Management window that shows the external drive?
    A Preferred Method of Uploading/Posting Screen Shots
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