Hdd help needed:

[CrzWaco]

Heya need to pick someones brain

I just put my old system back and when looking at the manage disk I see that my one 250gig hdd is for some reason suddenly my C drive and it says system.
Yet my 500gig says its the boot drive.With my new system I formatted a million times thinking the problem was with the 500gig.

Read my software post about the windows freezing, could this be the cause of it.But still don't explain the mouse being the problem of freezing my windows install at 39/34 minutes.

New system was only the basic plugged in and all seems to work fine but then I added my other hdd and all hell broke loose. could the conflict cause system freezes and so on? Why did it not ask me to change the letter if there was a system conflict?

 

[Random717]

System drive is where Windows is installed.
Boot drive is where your boot manager is installed. The boot manager locates a system drive and boots from it... doesn't necessarily need to be the same drive.
I'm not familiar with your problem, but check that you're not booting from the newly plugged in drive?

 

[Conradl]

Sounds odd, as stated above, your Boot and system partitions/drives can be different. Have you tried to install the OS with just one disk, then add the other one once the install is complete? If so, did you change the boot order in your BIOS? Sorry if you answered this already, your post is unclear to me....

 

[Juggy]

Your installation sort them in order on the bus in some cases.

Whenever I install a machine with more than 1 HDD I leave all the extra ones disconnected until my install is complete.

Windows install
SP install
Full driver install

After that I connect extra disks.

 

[CrzWaco]

Sounds odd, as stated above, your Boot and system partitions/drives can be different. Have you tried to install the OS with just one disk, then add the other one once the install is complete? If so, did you change the boot order in your BIOS? Sorry if you answered this already, your post is unclear to me....

I install the OS with only the 500gig installed then I shut down and connected the other 2 hhd I have.

Yes did change the boot order in my BIOS it will boot up and everything but for some reason it won't POST sometimes and also it froze every time I am in windows, even while installing drivers it will just freeze.

System drive is where Windows is installed.
Boot drive is where your boot manager is installed. The boot manager locates a system drive and boots from it... doesn't necessarily need to be the same drive.
I'm not familiar with your problem, but check that you're not booting from the newly plugged in drive?

Tnx for that.
That is where the system and boot should be since only the 500gig is plugged in, then after I installed the OS I shut down and plug the other 2 in.

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=184286 this was the problem I had before also goes more into detail. And where it all started been struggling for 3 days now, gave up but then saw my hdd problem when I was booting back into my old system. Decided to give it one more try.

 

[Juggy]

Best thing to do is keep it simple.

Attach your disks is this order.

SATA0 - Boot drive
SATA1 onwards - Data drives
SATA5 (last SATA port) - DVD/Optical drive

Not problems with disks jumping around.

 

[Conradl]

Confusion setting in fast here Do you now have your old XP install back? And that is now freezing when you run it? Have you checked your RAM. Download memtest: http://www.memtest.org/; or use hirens boot CD to run a memory diagnostic.

 

[CrzWaco]

Confusion setting in fast here Do you now have your old XP install back? And that is now freezing when you run it? Have you checked your RAM. Download memtest: http://www.memtest.org/; or use hirens boot CD to run a memory diagnostic.

Installed my old motherboard and cpu after removing the new ones and reformatted and installed windows no problem.With the 250gig and 500gig running no problems.Ram works 100%.

My ram is fine I tested 2 main and 2 backup sticks of ram, with mem test also put them in the slots differently 1 at a time.

(Reinstalled my new motherboard and cpu)
For some reason I could not format and install windows on my 250gig windows install says my partition is not correct I deleted the partitions on the hhd and created a new partition yet still it says the same thing!:erm:
So busy formatting the 500gig and installing windows on that.

 

[Kawak]

ok, from experience, I'm going to list a few things that could cause each of the symptoms.

windows freezes when installing or when booting up, sometimes if you remove or plug in a USB device the problem is solved, I've seen this on a Nforce4 based chipset board on an AMD system, that was a gigabyte board if my memory serves.

Windows keeps freezing, this one is mostly a hard drive issue, I've seen it on seagate SATA drives, there seems to be some sort of problem with Seagate SATA drives and raid SATA controllers (the ones MB manufacturers add in to enable hot swop of ESATA or RAID) on an Intel 965 chipset asus board.

What it can't be is a ram issue, that would have hanged the system with a definitive BSOD type screen tho its a BlackSOD on installation.

Other thing with freezing is CPU overheating, always results in system freeze without errors. or system restarts.

 

[CrzWaco]

Yeah that's where I looked first at the cpu temp but its only 41 Degrees.
Have no usb devices connected since that's what caused the windows to freeze up at 39min left.
Just got a BSOD page fault in nonpage area. (1 keyboard, 1 gpu, 500gig hdd samsung, 1 dvd drive)
I have just tried everything I can think of these 4 dayes and going to ask for a refund and get a amd rather. Thanks for all the help from everybody but this thing just don't want to work.