Black screen after windows load from sata drive

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bassplayer142

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My computer has been working fine for a while now. I am running windows off harddrive1 and harddrive2 is a slave for data. Both of the drives are sata. Now all of a sudden my computer screen will go black and hang after the windows XP load screen. When I disconnect the data cable from harddrive2, thent he computer boots just fine. Even if i disconnect the sata cable while it is stuck at the black screen(hotswappable), the computer miraculously boots. If i try to plug it in while windows is running it freezes up.

Any help is very much appreciated as there is a lot of important data on here:(
 
Do you have another computer to test that drive in, or perhaps a Linux LiveCD. I'm curious if the drive is accessable in other operating systems or if it's some kind of software glitch.
 
Yeh I would try booting the drive in another OS, even a Live linux CD to check the drive mounts and the data is accesible.

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My next step was to indeed check another computer. I already ghosted my os back to step1 and that didn't seem to work. Thanks for the replies, will have to do this over the weekend as I got school all day.
 
So I was able to access the hard drive on another computer (thank god). So now I'm thinking it is a motherboard problem on the computer or something. Anyone ever heard of this problem? Thanks for the help everyone!
 
I haven't run into this particularly with SATA drives, but sometimes with IDE setups the drives, no matter how you set the jumpers, BIOS or cable positions, would not play well together.

You may have one of those cases where, independently, the drives work fine.

Together, forget it.

By any chance (forgive me if I missed this) are the drives from two different manufacturers?
 
I just plugged it in to try again and bang it works! No idea why or whatever but I'm as happy as can be. I want to thank everyone that helped or put in any input. Also, don't screw around and wait when you have sensitive data that is not backed up. GET ANOTHER HARD DRIVE!!!
 
I like backing data up to an external hard drive. I currently have all my information backed up to a 25 gigabyte hard drive. All the other data can be replaced.
 
You don't need to clone your hard drive to protect your operating system unless you don't have a Windows installation disk.

You can buy a 500 gigabyte hard drive and an external enclosure to store your valued data for under $80.
 
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