Can't Boot Windows with Bad Second HDD

78jimm

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Nov 4, 2016
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HP Probook 4530s

Windows 10 64-bit





Hello everyone,



I have my windows installed on a Samsung 840 Series SSD 120GB and a WD 320GB HDD as secondary drive in a caddy in the dvd drive space. Both were functioning fine.



I had 301 mb of unallocated space in the HDD and the rest as one partition. I used MiniTool Partition Wizard 9 to extend that one partition with all the unallocated space. After the changes took affect it showed the hdd as one 'bad drive'. I thought i should restart windows to fix this. After restarting the laptop gets stuck on the start screen on which one accesses BIOS, the light of the caps lock blinks 5 times repeatedly and then stops. The hdd sounds like it is on and I cannot access BIOS.

When i remove the hdd windows boots up just fine.
 
Hello... Seems your HD format/partition settings was a fail... 1) Try adding the drive after windows boots... and fix it then.
2) Use a DOS based program to clear/remove the partitions on it so you can boot or add it later to the OS. Any Windows install media can do this in 'Custom" mode.

Playing/changing working partitions has a risk of losing everything on it... for just 301MB B /
 

78jimm

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1)The drive doesn't show up after boot, neither in the file explorer nor in the disk management.
2)Could you please explain the second option?