I had recently formatted a second hard rive (20 gig Maxtor) on my system to NTFS after having used it for Linux for some time. My intention was to use this drive for backup purposes and for storage of large files. I am running Win2k on an 8gig Maxtor drive currently, NTFS. Everything was fine until I started copying a large number of files to the drive. I received some sort of write error over and over for each file. Instead of waiting to click off the error for 300+ files I did a hard boot on the system. It came back up fine and I completed copying the file over. I was able to access those files as well. On the next reboot the second disk will make a click-clop sound and eventually I will get a BSOD inaccessible boot device error. If I unplug that drive my system boots fine on the master drive. Is there any thing that I can do to save the other drive? Thanks for your time.
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What I don't quite understand is how you get an inaccessible boot device error when it is not supposed to be booting off that drive. Are you sure you got the jumpers set correctly?
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