Removable HDD crashes my computer

howie696 · 08-21-2004, 05:43 AM

I hope someone can help, this is the story so far
I got a removable HDD tray and because I didn't have any spare IDE left I bought a seperate IDE controller, put in a spare 40G HDD and turned on, worked great no problems. The 40 was formated as FAT32 so I decided to use Partition magic 8.0 to reformate the drive as NTFS so I could store large files. Booted up--CRASH constant boot cycles, turned off and pulled out the removable drive, booted again without the removable booted up no problem. so I used FDISK to remove the partition from the removable drive and boot up again no problem go to Partition Magic and I can see the drive with an unallocated partition, tried again to creat a partition and back to crashing. So if I leave out the removable drive it boots fine, if I try to boot with the removable drive plugged in it crashes. I using Windows 200 Pro, 512meg ram, two other hard drives, and two DVD drives, any help from a clever person would be much appreciated
Thanks
Howard

08-21-2004, 05:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
howie696 Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1 OS: win 200 pro	Removable HDD crashes my computer I hope someone can help, this is the story so far I got a removable HDD tray and because I didn't have any spare IDE left I bought a seperate IDE controller, put in a spare 40G HDD and turned on, worked great no problems. The 40 was formated as FAT32 so I decided to use Partition magic 8.0 to reformate the drive as NTFS so I could store large files. Booted up--CRASH constant boot cycles, turned off and pulled out the removable drive, booted again without the removable booted up no problem. so I used FDISK to remove the partition from the removable drive and boot up again no problem go to Partition Magic and I can see the drive with an unallocated partition, tried again to creat a partition and back to crashing. So if I leave out the removable drive it boots fine, if I try to boot with the removable drive plugged in it crashes. I using Windows 200 Pro, 512meg ram, two other hard drives, and two DVD drives, any help from a clever person would be much appreciated Thanks Howard