Re: Vista won't boot after format of secondary drive
- From: "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:12:21 -0400
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.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
<markfinn_0@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:93c442c7-ad54-499f-b649-dbb11370b448@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
.
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