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PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:32 pm    Post subject: Windows Hanging on Load Screen Reply with quote

Hello,

I'm having a problem and any advice or insight would be appreciated. I recently bought a 2 TB hardrive for storage and installed it on my windows XP Home computer. I installed it and had it formatted no problem, I even completed backing up all my files to the new drive. Now however, when I start XP it gets to the loading screen with the blue bar and hangs or freezes at the same place nearly every time. I say nearly every time because randomly it will finish loading sometimes, probably 1/20.

When I attempt to open the computer in safe mode it freezes at the sys.mup screen. To find out the problem I tried starting the computer with each of my sticks of ram individually to see if that was the problem, and it wasn't, and then I tried unplugging the new harddrive from the mobo. With only the main drive on, the computer started fine, with no problems. When i replugged the secondary harddive windows hangs again. Any thoughts?

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Chris
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is the second drive an internal SATA/IDE drive or an external USB?

I suspect it is internal. I had something similar happen and it was cured by changing the jumper settings on the drives to be master and slave. Both were set as master, and it didn't like it.

Also, when you say you backed up your files, what exactly do you mean by this? Just your documents and personal data, or the whole disk including operating system?
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