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July 21, 2007 at 10:13 PM
scansite

Machine not booting when 2 HDs are attached

by scansite . Updated 18 years, 11 months ago

Dear All,

I have 2 DiamondMax 21 320GB SATA II disks attached to an ASUS P5K motherboard.
The first disk has Win XP Pro SP2 on it. The second disk is formatted with NTFS, has a drive letter and is a primary active partition.

When I boot the machine with both HDs attached, it starts to power up and after half a second powers down again.

When I detach the second HD, the machine boots okay. Has anybody encountered this before?

The second disk has no OS on it, just some files.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Carl.

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