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PC hangs at "Starting windows"

Ginge620
By Ginge620
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So my PC hangs at the "Starting windows" splash screen. This happens when i have a 1.5TB WD drive plugged in. OCZ Agility 3 SSD is boot drive. Sometimes it goes past after about 2 minutes and a hdd consistency check thing pops up which i usually skip. I have done a full format on the HDD not just a quick one, then i put around 700GB of data back on it so it not fragmented any more  i also deleted 2 partitions that i had set up so its now just the 1 whole drive. I have let the PC check the disk before but it at the end of the scan it hangs again and doesnt continue to boot into windows. Any idea on what i can do? Im thinking about running dskchk when i boot into windows rather than i doing it at boot.

PC 1 Specs (New) :

Corsair 450D | Intel 4770K | Asus Sabertooth Z97 | 16GB Corsair Vengeance @1600Mhz | Asus STRIX GTX 970 SLI | Samsung 840 EVO 250GB | 2 WD Black 500GB RAID 0 | WD Red 3TB | Corsair AX860 | Corsair H110 | 4 Corsair 140mm LED & 1 120mm Fans

PC 2 Specs (Old) :

Corsair 650D | AMD Phenom II X6 1100T | Asus Crosshair IV Formula | 4GB Corsair XMS3 @1600Mhz | Crossfire HD6970's | Asus Essence STX | OCZ Agility 3 240GB| WD Blue 250GB | WD Green 640GB | XFX850PRO | Corsair H100i

Peripherals :

BenQ 2420T | Packard Bell Viseo 220DX | Corsair K70 | Corsair M65 | Beyerdynamic DT880 Premium | Sennheiser PC360 | Bang & Olufsen Beovox X25's
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