Vista won't boot after format of secondary drive

I have a brand new computer (running Vista) with 2 drives - a 1 Tb
SATA drive (C: primary), and a 320 G IDE drive (D: secondary). System
booted up fine. I knew the IDE drive had errors on it, so I copied
everything I could to the C: drive and re-formatted D:. Normal
shutdown. Next reboot - all I got was the Microsoft "green line" for
about 10 seconds and a black screen. Safe mode showed it stopped at
CRCDISK.

What happened? Vista was pre-installed and I supplied the 320 G drive.
Did the format delete something off the D: drive that Vista was
expecting? Reliable sources say to disconnect the D: drive and
everything should work fine. If so - can I reconnect the drive and
assume normal operation?

Thanks for any help.

mf.

Disconnect the 2nd drive. Does Vista boot? If so, don't just format the 2nd
drive. Delete all partitions and create a new partition. Then format the new
partition.

After you have done this, because there "may" be problems with the 2nd
drive - run chkdsk XXX: /f /r on the 2nd drive. This will check for errors
in the unused sectors (which will be pretty much all of them at this point).
If the drive doesn't pass - replace the drive.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


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>I have a brand new computer (running Vista) with 2 drives - a 1 Tb
> SATA drive (C: primary), and a 320 G IDE drive (D: secondary). System
> booted up fine. I knew the IDE drive had errors on it, so I copied
> everything I could to the C: drive and re-formatted D:. Normal
> shutdown. Next reboot - all I got was the Microsoft "green line" for
> about 10 seconds and a black screen. Safe mode showed it stopped at
> CRCDISK.
>
> What happened? Vista was pre-installed and I supplied the 320 G drive.
> Did the format delete something off the D: drive that Vista was
> expecting? Reliable sources say to disconnect the D: drive and
> everything should work fine. If so - can I reconnect the drive and
> assume normal operation?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> mf.

wrote:
> I have a brand new computer (running Vista) with 2 drives - a 1 Tb
> SATA drive (C: primary), and a 320 G IDE drive (D: secondary). System
> booted up fine. I knew the IDE drive had errors on it, so I copied
> everything I could to the C: drive and re-formatted D:. Normal
> shutdown. Next reboot - all I got was the Microsoft "green line" for
> about 10 seconds and a black screen. Safe mode showed it stopped at
> CRCDISK.
>
> What happened? Vista was pre-installed and I supplied the 320 G drive.
> Did the format delete something off the D: drive that Vista was
> expecting? Reliable sources say to disconnect the D: drive and
> everything should work fine. If so - can I reconnect the drive and
> assume normal operation?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> mf.


Does your BIOS have a key that allows you to choose the drive to boot
from? Mine is F12 but of course that is probably only for Gigabyte
motherboards.