Up until a few days ago, my system was running off of a WD Blue HDD. I ordered and installed a OCZ Vector 180 SSD, but had to unplug my WD Blue because I didn't have enough cables to have both plugged in. I went ahead and ordered more SATA cables, and installed Windows 10 on the SSD.
I ordered more cables off of Newegg, and plugged both harddrives in when they arrived in the mail. I wanted to format the old WD blue, so I could remove the OS from it and just use it as extra storage. When I booted the PC up after plugging both drives in, it automatically booted to the WD Blue, making it impossible for me to format. I restarted the computer, changed the boot drive to my SSD, and started windows. Just after the windows logo appears, the computer shuts down completely.
It works fine when I run both with the WD as the boot drive, but crashes when I have the SSD as the boot drive. Does anyone know how I can remedy this and boot off of the SSD so that I can format the WD Blue? It might just be a cable problem or something (the SATA cable I bought off of Newegg was $0.60)
Here is a list of components if that helps:
CPU: AMD FX-6300
CPU Cooler: Stock
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0
RAM: 2x8gb Kingston HyperX 1333 DDR3
Storage: 1TB WD Blue, 240GB OCZ Vector 180
Graphics Card: Nvidia GT 640 1GB GDDR3
PSU: EVGA GS 550W 80+ Gold Fully Modular
Case: NZXT H440
I ordered more cables off of Newegg, and plugged both harddrives in when they arrived in the mail. I wanted to format the old WD blue, so I could remove the OS from it and just use it as extra storage. When I booted the PC up after plugging both drives in, it automatically booted to the WD Blue, making it impossible for me to format. I restarted the computer, changed the boot drive to my SSD, and started windows. Just after the windows logo appears, the computer shuts down completely.
It works fine when I run both with the WD as the boot drive, but crashes when I have the SSD as the boot drive. Does anyone know how I can remedy this and boot off of the SSD so that I can format the WD Blue? It might just be a cable problem or something (the SATA cable I bought off of Newegg was $0.60)
Here is a list of components if that helps:
CPU: AMD FX-6300
CPU Cooler: Stock
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0
RAM: 2x8gb Kingston HyperX 1333 DDR3
Storage: 1TB WD Blue, 240GB OCZ Vector 180
Graphics Card: Nvidia GT 640 1GB GDDR3
PSU: EVGA GS 550W 80+ Gold Fully Modular
Case: NZXT H440
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