New Sata Drive detection and Windows Bootup

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stuaz

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I currently have two IDE harddrives in my machine. However the second smaller one is failing so i brought myself a nice shiny 500gb SATA drive. However, if i plug in all the cables into the Sata Drive and then plug the other end into the Motherboard and PSU. When i turn the machine on it won't boot up. I get past the BIOS (Which has detected the new addition) and then the point where it should display the windows loading, i just get a blank screen.

If i switch the computer off and boot up again, i get the message saying "Windows did not boot up correctly" and if i pick safe mode or normal boot up, i still get the blank screen..

If i upplug the hard drive, i get normal operating computer.

Any ideas?
 
You most likely need to go into the bios and make sure you have the right harddrive selected as first boot device. Chances are the bios automatically changed to the sata drive once it got detected.
 
johnb35 said:
You most likely need to go into the bios and make sure you have the right harddrive selected as first boot device. Chances are the bios automatically changed to the sata drive once it got detected.
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The first boot device is the Windows Hard Drive.
 
The only thing I can think of is that the drive is bad. download and run the diagnostic utility from the drive manufacture web site.
 
Make sure your Sata cable is plugged in on both the harddrive and board good unplug and replug, if that doesnt work try using another Sata port and or cable if you have one.
 
StrangleHold said:
Make sure your Sata cable is plugged in on both the harddrive and board good unplug and replug, if that doesnt work try using another Sata port and or cable if you have one.
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Ok, i have got a step further. I can boot up into Windows with the drive installed.

If i go into Device manager it sees it fine. However, in "my computer" it is not recognized
 
You need to go to your Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-on the left click on Disk Management- on the lower right the drive should show up. Right click on it and Partition and Format it and then it will show up.
 
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