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Hi guys

Ive just replaced a faulty 2nd HDD (SATA) in a friends PC and found that it causes a BSOD just after the windows loading logo. If i unplug it and leave it just to load one the original drive it loads into XP fine.

This drive is brand new from the shops and i know its not fault because ive had it in my own machine as a slave, however this is a simular problem to what was happening with the original 2nd drive (however i know the original was faulty because i ran a scan using the manufacturers tool and it failed).

Ive tried formatting the new drive in another computer and tried fiddeling with all kinds of BIOS settings but still I get attacked with the dredded BSOD. I cant see what the BSOD error is because the PC resets within half a second of the error appearing.

I know the PC can take a 2nd hard drive because while waiting for the new drive to arrive we had a temporary IDE drive in there, it just doesnt seem to like having a 2nd SATA drive (as the primary drive is also SATA).

Here are the drives:

Primary drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 200gig SATA
2nd (new) Drive: Hitachi DeskStar P7K500 250gig SATA

If it helps the motherboard is a MSI-6741.

Thanks


Edit: FYI the original (faulty) 2nd drive was also a Seagate Barracude 7200.7 200g (SATA)

Edit2: Tried swapping SATA ports/cables around, no difference