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Solve : 2 HDD and now it won't do a warm boot? |
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Answer» I added a MAXTOR HDD(I had from an old computer) to me desktop PC and now it will not do a warm boot. I can do a cold boot everytime. I tried each HDD independent from the other as a master HDD and it warm booted. But when together it fails. What OS is on each of these drives ? ? Quote from: believer on August 09, 2008, 08:59:00 PM I added a Maxtor HDD(I had from an old computer) to me desktop PC and now it will not do a warm boot. I can do a cold boot everytime. I tried each HDD independent from the other as a master HDD and it warm booted. But when together it fails.IDE cable Bios recongizes the 2 drives: ONE as Master and other as slave. This is correct. I can access both on windows too. Jumpers are correct. I can cold boot and no issues are found whatsoever. It is ONLY if I hit restart (warm boot) that I get the boot failure. I tried to find maxtor software to test HDD bit couldn't find it. Both drives are maxtor. The thing is the HDD with XP on it will warm boot if I remove slave (older HDD). slave HDD is not in boot up sequence(no OS on it)How old is the Maxtor? There may be some incompatibility. Use Seatools: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/.tried it already and it says device might not be pass through? I have tested old HDD before and found it to be okay. any ideas on what is different on a warm boot and cold boot? what files are looked at differently? Boot.ini file is fine since cold boot works and I assume HDD is fine again since Cold boot works? Quote from: believer on August 10, 2008, 10:32:22 PM tried it already and it says device might not be pass through?Any idea what this means? I don't know what is looked at differently between a cold boot and a warm boot; don't think that's the issue, though. On a cold boot I think the hard drives are initialized by the BIOS; on a warm boot, I don't know. Any yellow marks in Device Manager? What does Windows Disk Management show for the drive?Not sure what the no pass through means. Interesting thought...BIOS does a cold boot but what does the warm boot...if not Bios then whatever does is the difference.. ANYONE know that answer? No yellow marks in Device Manager and disk manager shows it fine nothing unsual.I'm GUESSING Windows. Have you tried a new cable?If windows...could XP not like my Master HDD? I know there are different parts to the IDE cable...does the reboot use a different portion then the cold boot? I will try that right now...I'll post results in minute I DON"T BELIEVE IT!!!! IT WORKED(sorry for caps). I spent sooooomany hrs trying sooo many different things. Why it worked I am not sure but that it did is GREAT! I guess now I know why the PC I took the slave HDD from was bad..hahaha! Just hit restart again to see the wonderfull bootup! Thanks drmsucks !!! And thanks for being up at this time on forum! BOD BLESS YOU MAN! Take care. |
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