More than two hard drives

[LaunchPad_SDG]

Ok so I have some spare hard drives that I want to connect internally to my pc, I would like to have a hard drive for os, games, media, etc. if possible, so 4 drives in total, but when I connect more than two drives, I get an error on boot up saying that something has changed and it doesn't boot straight away to windows, I also think there was some errors I got in windows(I tried this a year or so ago, I'm just now wanting to revisit this) but when I disconnect the hard drive down to two it works fine. I've looked around to see if there is any solution to get past this I have yet to find anything. They say its possible, but with external drives, but that isn't what I want. Anyone know about how to add more?

[ThisIsCheez]

When you connect all 4 drives have you went into BIOS and made sure your boot order is correct? Make sure the drive with your OS is first on the list.

[Windows7ge]

So it tells you something has changed but it does boot into windows?

It's normal to get a prompt (typically a black screen with white or grey text) when your swap RAM or CPU but I'm not familiar with prompts for adding drives.

 

If you get into your OS fine and can see the drives there's a couple ways to wipe the old data off them if it gives you errors when you try.

[corrado33]

14 minutes ago, LaunchPad_SDG said:

Ok so I have some spare hard drives that I want to connect internally to my pc, I would like to have a hard drive for os, games, media, etc. if possible, so 4 drives in total, but when I connect more than two drives, I get an error on boot up saying that something has changed and it doesn't boot straight away to windows, I also think there was some errors I got in windows(I tried this a year or so ago, I'm just now wanting to revisit this) but when I disconnect the hard drive down to two it works fine. I've looked around to see if there is any solution to get past this I have yet to find anything. They say its possible, but with external drives, but that isn't what I want. Anyone know about how to add more?

Couple of things.

 

1. As with what the above post said, check your boot order in the bios. This is LIKELY your problem. With the computer trying to boot off an old drive..

2. Format all of the extra drives so that there isn't anything on them.

3. Power. It's possible (yet improbable) that 4 drives are drawing too much power.

4. If all else fails, and the computer won't boot with 3 drives but will boot with 2, try your boot drive on the different sata ports and maybe the bios will pick it up first. 

[LaunchPad_SDG]

I think I did, but I'll try it and see. Thanks.