Blue screen after adding 3rd HDD

[naiku]

Hi, I am having a problem adding a 3rd HDD to my system. The current setup I have is 2 x 160GB SATA HDD's on a RAID (Mirror) setup. I am trying to add a 3rd HDD using an IDE cable, but whenever I connect up this 3rd HDD I get a blue screen crash.

The 3rd HDD is formatted and works, I have added it to another machine (with just 1 IDE HDD) and it picked up the drive fine. It's only when I connect it to the PC with the SATA/RAID that I get the crash. I have checked in the BIOS and cannot find anything in there which would be causing me this problem, HDD is set as a boot drive with the RAID drive a higher priority than the IDE drive. I have the jumpers on the IDE drive removed to indicate that it is a single drive on the IDE.

Help!! I am at a loss as to how to add this 3rd drive. Thanks.

 

[naiku]

Forgot something and can't find the edit button for my previous post...... I don't want to add this 3rd HDD to my RAID. I just want to be able to access it in Win XP as a 3rd HDD.

 

[wolluf]

Is it being correctly recognised in the bios?

Have you tried it in all different possible positions (if you have 2 IDE slots, 2 master & 2 slave options. Plus you can jumper as master/slave/cable select)?

Have you tried safe mode?

 

[naiku]

Wolluf, yes the drive is being recognised in the bios. So far I have tried:

Primary IDE as both Master/Single, Slave and Cable Select
Secondary IDE as Master/Single drive

It gives me the same blue screen whether trying normal or safe mode. I have also tried using a different IDE cable.

 

[wolluf]

What does the blue screen say - eg, does it mention a specific driver file?

 

[naiku]

The blue screen does not really give me any information, it tells me to remove any newly installed HDD's or HD controllers, check my computer for viruses and to run chkdsk / f

The stop error it gives me is
STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF79F7528, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

This is turning into a real head scratcher, and I thought it would be a simple enough thing to do.

 

[Frank4d]

I am guessing the IDE drive has Windows installed on it and your computer is trying to boot from it even though your BIOS is set to boot from the SATA drives. If there is a "Boot Other Device" option in BIOS, try disabling it.

 

[naiku]

Hi Frank, the IDE drive is blank and formatted. To eliminate it being a problem with the IDE HDD I moved it to another PC and formatted. Thanks for the input though, I will give the "Boot Other Device" option now and report back.

 

[PRPhx]

I'm thinking that because you added the 3rd hard drive and it's not a SATA, windows doesn't like it. I'd bet that IF you reinstalled the OS, with the SATA drivers it would work.

 

[naiku]

PRPhx I think you could be right, I tried the option to disable the "Boot Other Device" and this also did not work. It's looking increasingly likely that reinstalling XP is the only way to go.

 

[Freestone]

In another PC, delete the partition on the third drive and leave it unformatted prior to installing it in your PC. I think the addition of the third drive is affecting XP's drive assignment and boot.ini is pointing at the wrong drive when the formatted third drive is installed.

 

[RICHINMINN]

naiku,
What size power supply is in your system? What CPU is in the system, and how much memory is installed? If you've got a PS in the 300-350 watt range, with a high-powered CPU and a ton of memory, the addition of the 3rd HD may have pushed the PS to its limits, and when a PS gets flaky, weird things can happen to a system. Try replacing the PS with something in the 450+ watt range. I'm amazed at the number of systems that I've worked on with strange symptoms that have been "cured" with a higher-power, higher-quality power supply.

Rich (in Minn.)