DV8000z second hdd problem on vista

Hi,
I have a dv8000z AMD Turion64 1.8Ghz, 2GB RAM and two hard drives. I bought the computer with just one 80GB 5400rpm, cause I had another one from my previous laptop - Fujitsu 60GB 4200rpm which I installed in the second bay. Everything was ok under XP, but than I decided to go with Vista. Almost at the end of vista's installation a strange blue screen appeared and the computer restarted itself saying that the installation failed. After two days of reading and trying again and again...i removed the second hard drive and it worked. Than I put it back and vista recognised it. But when I open it in the explorer and browse in it, I get the same strange blue screen, the computer reboots and than vista doesn't say anything. Do you have any idea what the problem is? Have you ever seen this blue screen?

 

I've never seen that screen, but there is clearly something Vista dislikes about the drive. You might want to try using a 2.5" drive caddy to hook the drive up to an XP machine and run a virus scan on it. The only other thing I can think of would be to let Vista format the drive, which I'm sure you probably don't want to do.

 

Those are IDE drives, right? Is the 80GB drive jumpered as Master and the 60GB jumpered as Slave? If not... I don't know why that would cause your error, but it's all I can think of.

 

Yes. The jumpers are ok. I'll connect it to an external caddy and see if it's still the same.

 

looks like you installed the wrong video drivers. Go in via safemode and disable the driver and see if it works

 

I don't see why it has something to do with the video drivers...
I put it in external caddy, and I get the same problem, so I guess I'll have to format it.