Primary drive locks up upon boot


  1. Posts : 1,782
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #1

    Primary drive locks up upon boot


    I plugged in my old IDE hard drive and had it set up as a slave and when I try booting up I get to the Windows splash screen and I hear my primary drive click and then the activity light stays solid and it won't boot. I tried a couple times and it wouldn't work so I unplugged the secondary drive and it booted right up. Any ideas?
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  2. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #2

    How many IDE HD's fitted?

    IDE HD's will always boot first.

    Base BIOS boot order
    1) Floppy
    2) CD/DVD
    3) IDE Hd
    4) Sata HD.
    5) other device
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  3. Posts : 1,782
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I just have one IDE and one SATA. I don't think I have 7 installed on the IDE drive but it is booting into 7
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  4. Posts : 11,408
    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
       #4

    [Quote]I plugged in my old IDE hard drive and had it set up as a slave[Quote]
    As you only have one IDE this will need to set MASTER on jumpers & 2nd HD boot in BIOS.
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