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HDD Issue - Please help!

ArcticSalad
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Hi,

I plugged in an old 1TB Cavier Blue, and then when I boot my system it gets stuck on the windows 10 loading screen for about 5 minutes and then blue screens. I've got an SSD as my boot drive, and I double checked in bios that it was still set as my boot drive. As soon as I unplug the Cavier Blue my PC works perfectly normal again. Any ideas? Even if by chance the harddrive is dead or failing, why would it be causing issues with loading windows? - It isn't the boot drive with windows 10 on it.

 

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It really could simply come down to it just being a corrupted drive that windows just isn't liking. You could try connecting it via a SATA to USB and see if that makes a difference. But it seems like your best bet for diagnosing it is to possibly unplug your boot drive and run a live version of Linux like Ultimate Boot CD and try to diagnosis it the best you can. Not much diagnosing you can do if you can get an OS to boot with the drive connected can ya-_-

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Can you check it in another PC or another sata port on your mobo?

If it does the same (hangs, freezes) then the controller on the drive is gone.

Also if it's indeed the controller, it doesn't matter if the OS is on a different drive, it's going to hang or freeze the machine.

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3 hours ago, Shadow6767 said:

Hi,

I plugged in an old 1TB Cavier Blue, and then when I boot my system it gets stuck on the windows 10 loading screen for about 5 minutes and then blue screens. I've got an SSD as my boot drive, and I double checked in bios that it was still set as my boot drive. As soon as I unplug the Cavier Blue my PC works perfectly normal again. Any ideas? Even if by chance the harddrive is dead or failing, why would it be causing issues with loading windows? - It isn't the boot drive with windows 10 on it.

 

Thanks.

I suggest you plug the drive in via usb and first completely delete all partitions and whipe the drive. Afterwards reformat it preferably as ntfs and one whole volume. Then again plug it in via sata and see what happenes. If your system again fails to boot the drive is corrupted and you should replace it. If it works look at the smart data and if it looks good you can use it, but remember always backup.

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