Hey all, i need some help! I purchased a 3TB hard drive YESTERDAY and installed it without a hitch. I backed up all my files to it and proceeded to fill it up. I left my computer on overnight downloading a large (64GB) file. This morning i found it was frozen on the windows logon screen, (which was weird because that means it restarted at some point). After a restart, The computer Froze at post. I unplugged the 3TB hard drive and can boot into bios no problem, but cannot load windows from the other hard drive, it freezes at windows startup logo. So i unplugged ALL hard drives, hit the CMOS reset button and TOOK the battery out, put the battery back in and tried to load my windows 7 disc WITHOUT any hard drives plugged in, It freezes during the 'Loading Windows' process.

I will keep messing with it but i really dont know what else to do.

Thanks,
-DTBrand and model of the computer? Did you do any formatting and partitioning of the new HDD and if so in what file format? Is this an internal or external HDD? truenorthCustom built with an MSI Neo4 Platinum Mobo
I formatted GPT and PARTITIONED NTFS
it's an Internal drive


I didn't notice anything wrong with it yesterday everything was smooth sailingSounds like a process was interrupted during the download (transfer) and has corrupted the HDD's . Any possibility to temporarily try to read the drives on another computer to see what is readable? Have you tried to get into safe mode on either drive? I presume that your windows 7 O/S was still on the original HDD before you lost CONTROL of the computer. If you were able to determine why the computer shut down during the night that could have a pointer. If you can get into safe mode and set the computer to an earlier time that might get you out of this. truenorththe thing that throws me off is that even without the hard drives plugged in, it freezes when i try to run the windows 7 setup disc.
I dont have another computer that supports SATA
I am having trouble booting into safe mode, the only options i get are startup recovery and boot windows normally.
yes win7 is installed on another HDD, and it freezes after the loading windows process.
Thanks for your input!safe mode freezes at

Loaded: \Windows\System32\DRIVERS\AVGIDSEH.Sysalright, i've figured it out, the 3TB drive was causing problems, but now can only use the 3tb drive in an enclosure (which means the speed of the drive has significantly decreased)  


if anyone else has this problem or any more ideas I'd love to hear itJust a parting observation re the "possibility" as to why this might have occurred (and i certainly will bow to more knowledgeable CH hardware experts to venture if i am off base here ). Could it be possible that the point of connection on the MOBO had insufficient power available to run the drive? If the "case" is powered that would overcome that problem. However if the case is not powered and is relying solely on the power of the USB port then that theory goes out the window i suspect. 3 TB HDD drives are in the upper range of the latest available drives and more than likely using high rpm (compared to earlier drives) so maybe their power DEMANDS are greater. Whatdeya think? truenorth