windows will not boot with extra drives?

ncc74656 · May 19, 2014

ok so i have seen drives get boot configs thrown on them or have a bad sector and cause windows to hang but this is a new one to me.

i replaced my hard drives for my C drive and now when i start up windows will hang mid load when i have any more than just my C drive pluged in.

previous config: 3 intel X25 2nd gens in raid 0 and 12 3TB drives for storage.
new config: 3 kingston 3K 120GB in raid 0 and the same 12 3TB drives for storage.

i added a sata 3 controller card and changed my other drives to ahci from raid.

popatim · May 20, 2014

Depending on the sata controller you added, it may or may not have issues with the motherbd ones.

ncc74656 · Jul 28, 2014

ok so the issue was that some how 3 of the storage drives were set for AHCI and 3 were not. i do not know why windows does this but how i fixed it is as follows: set the onboard stat controllers from AHCI to IDE (this did not allow it to boot). then i went into each drive and erased the volume information/file tables and rewrote them. THEN the computer would boot with all storage drives connected.

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