Posted: 7/4/2006 8:14:25 PM EDT
| Splurged and bought a 500gb drive. Running windows 2000 sp 4, get a blue screen of death during the boot up sequence (something about an invalid date on SCSI device?!?). 250gb drive works fine on the same machine, and the 500gb works fine on another (win2k) machine. Any ideas? |
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does the machine start to boot into windoz. or is this once you get into windoz and you try to access it or what explain when exactly you get the error message depending on the age of the system it could very well need a bios update. you might try a different ide cable. stuff like that |
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Odd thing is, I've seen windows have problems when you play magical mass_storage parts with the boot setup, but an auxillary data drive usually never has a problem in and of itself (ie, you'll also have other crap not working correctly) What is the drive model and maker.. possibly there are known issues with the drive, but i agree with the others that first guess is the motherboard. |
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Could be that the OS put part or all of the swap file on the second hard drive. Doing this makes it perform faster when it has to use virtual memory. I'd put the old drive back in, and see if it comes up. Then move the swap file back to the drive the OS is on. Then swap hard drives and see what it does. Or if you can, clone the 250GB drive to the 500GB drive and then swap it in. |
