Second Hard Drive

Hi there.
I was getting BSOD and not waking from sleep, Dell sent me a replacement HD, and everything is cool now.
I asked them to also send me a cage for the secondary HD slot.
I installed the 2nd HD (120GB Seagate) but then I got the BSOD.
I physically uninstalled the HD and rebooted. No issues.
I looked at the HD with an external hookup on my desktop.
The HD was split into 2 partitions, so I used Windows Disk Management to delete the second partition, so it is just now just 1.
However, the M17X is still giving me a BSOD after reinstalling the second HD. I made sure to format, so that is no the issue. Also the HD came from a laptop that ran Windows, not MAC.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Mark

 

I would definitely recommend that you because this problem will happen whenever you know. Also maybe try the thing like the other one but I'm not sure if this will change. Have you tried the scenario where you swap something like tomorrow with Wednesday, or otherwise tried to see where it is? I suggest you may not well I dunno...

 

Huh? what? head hurts having a hard time following... ... Swap tommorrow with Wed?



@ esa1178 Try another HDD, may be a bad drive. Shouldn't be though. What is your system set to in the bios? RAID? What port are the drives in? Port 0 or port 1? Try placing your boot drive in Port 1 and the spare drive in port 0.

 

Why are you repeating exactly what I said to op?

 

Lets take this to PM if you want to explain to me on what your suggestion was. Not sure how swapping tomorrow with wed will help his BSOD issue. I think your missing some words because your post was confusing and tough to decipher.

 

Lol, what's going on here?

@ esa what's the BSOD error code?

 

Maybe the boot flag is still set on the device or RAID-related metadata is still left on the old drive? Since you can access it from your desktop, I would delete all partitions on the drive (assuming you don' care about the data), leaving it as raw space, and then hook it up to your M17. Your M17 is set to RAID mode with the system disk as a pass-through device, so I would also make sure that your new 2nd drive is also set as a pass-through device in the RAID bios before you present the drive to windows. Once in windows you can initialize the disk and create a new partition from the windows disk management utility.

Lastly, you can use a tools like Gparted or Acronis Disk Director if you want to view/modify more information about the disk and its partitions. Good luck.

 

I'm sorry i was just sarcastically expressing my "Wait whaaa...?" to the OP.

As far as I understood their post is: they have a windows issue, they got a second hard drive from Dell, and put it into the second slot, and everything was cool, but Windows still blue screened, and OP then wiped the partitions on a hard drive...(new one?). There's no mention of a windows install taking place, or cloning the OS from the suspected failing drive to the new one...

Really I just wanted to reply:
Huh? what? head hurts having a hard time following...... Swap tommorrow with Wed?


Also I was confused with the hard drive "came from PC not a MAC"

 

Ahh ok. Lol. Got it. I was confused with it too. Had to reread the original post a get times. Then you confused me more. Sometimes the humor goes over my head

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