Second Hard Drive Not Working

Hey all, I havent posted here in awhile, but I have a question for you all.

I recently upgraded my computer to a new processor, mobo, memory and GPU.

I got everything reinstalled and set up and decided to plug in all my USB connectors for the front pannel on my case to my mobo. In doing this I disconnected the power and data cables to both of my hard drives.

After plugging everything back in, I rebooted. I get to the Windows startup screen with the horizontal bar that "shows loading progress." That screen shows for a second then my 2 screens go blank and my fans all go to a higherspeed (same speed they were on startup)

I unplug the secondary drive from the system, boot up, and I can get to XP. If plug in the drive, I cant boot to XP and get the same error all the time, no matter what I do.

Any thoughts?

 

have you got your sec. drive jumpered as the slave on your primary IDE channel. (primary drive jumpered as the master on primary IDE)?

 

I have it as cable select.

 

sometimes this will work, sometimes not....best to set it as 'slave' and see if that resolves the issue!
New mobo, new BIOS.
May not see your HDD's same way your old did!

 

It did work with my new mobo for awhile. Now it dosnt.

I have it on the setting of "Master with Slave Present" with the slave being my CD drive. Still wont boot.

 

You say in your OP that you have 2 hard drives....these should be set as 'Master and Slave' on your primary IDE channel!
Your optical drive(CD) should be set as 'master' on your secondary IDE channel (on a different ribbon). Don't mix the devices up on the same channel or you may get a conflict issue which sounds like what your having.


Check your hard drives and optical in device manager and check that there are no exclamation marks or red crosses next to your devices!
right click 'my computer', click manage, then click device manager.

 

I have one SATA drive and one IDE drive. The IDE drive is the one that isnt working. I have ALWAYS run my CD drive and hard drive on the same cable without problems...untill now.
Edit:

With the secondary HD plugged in, I cannot even boot to windows.

 

Sorry for the doubble post but;

I went to Device Manager and it says that my Mass Storage driver is not installed.