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Sata 1 drive in a newer laptop with Sata 2 controller?

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October 19, 2013 12:25:16 PM

I have a Sony Vaio laptop with a WD 500GB Sata 2 drive in it. It has been wanting to run startup repair on every boot. When it does boot it takes 20 minutes to come up. In order to see if this is a hard drive or controller problem, I stuck a 160 GB Sata 1 drive from another laptop in it. With the older drive it starts to boot fine, but when the Windows 7 splash screen starts, it blue screens and reboots. So I now I don't know if the laptop controller is bad, or it's just not compatible with the older drive. I don't want to spend $50 on a new Sata 2 drive if it won't fix it.

Any suggestions?

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October 19, 2013 12:57:20 PM

Windows likes tgo run on the computer it was installed on. So BSOD would be normal if you take the drive out of one computer and place it in a different computer. more to your point get the original drive back into it;s computer and the run a disk check.

chkdsk c: /f
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October 19, 2013 1:10:15 PM

I tried chkdsk on the original drive and it found no problems. I have swapped drives in various laptops a dozen times in the past, and installed new drives too. I never got a BSOD before. It usually just has to update the drivers and reboot several times to function. In this case the BSOD comes at the first sign of Windows starting. Thus my quandry.
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October 19, 2013 1:33:11 PM

1. Repair the repair start-up option on WD 500GB HDD. Hopefully it will work fine. I hope there is a file system corruption on that drive.

2. Every SATA drives are forward/backward compatible. The drivers and controllers wont match from laptop to laptop, so you are getting BSOD's. If you wish to use this drive in any laptop then reinstall window's, and you will be able to use it again. No need to buy a new SATA drive.
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October 19, 2013 2:04:20 PM

Actually, it is the drive that has failed. I just knocked the rocks out of my head and stuck the SATA 2 drive from the Sony into an older laptop, and it took 20 minutes to boot. So it IS the drive, not the controller.

Thanks for your suggestions!
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