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New SATA Drive crashes Windows XP
AHA! Don't know what made me decide to try Windows Safe Mode, but voila, now the software didn't crash, so I renamed the volume and did a full format with Disk Management running in Safe Mode. Once formatting completed, and drive declared healthy, returned to Normal Windows and everything is...- Tweave
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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New SATA Drive crashes Windows XP
The diagnostics which I ran are from the BIOS, they take about 5 minutes per drive, and all 3 passed. My vintage 2004 BIOS does not have auto-detect option. But it's a simple process, when booting up, to hit F2, then select the drive, then enable or disable it. When it's enabled, Windows "sees"...- Tweave
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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New SATA Drive crashes Windows XP
Oh, and I ran Hard Drive Diagnostics from the BIOS, and it passed, so I believe the cabling and I/O is good, it's something in the partitioning or formatting or Windows interface that's screwed up, but now what?- Tweave
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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New SATA Drive crashes Windows XP
Installed WD5000AAKS (3rd SATA drive) in Dell computer running Windows XP Pro. BIOS did not autodetect drive, so entered Setup and enabled drive manually. Then Windows did not autodetect drive, so entered Disk Management, chose drive letter, entered volume name, chose NTFS, and reformatted the...- Tweave
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