Adding a new hdd

Thepriceofgaz

Active Member
hi all first of all i am good with a pc so not a newbie but i have a problem

my pc

q6600
gigabyte motherboard
4g ram corsair dominator
corsair 650tx psu

san disk128 ssd which is c drive
samsung 1tb drive for games and media etc

and i have another ssd a san disk ultra 2 ad it a while it was connected to the pc before and worked fine as it still does
now when i connect this drive to the pc the pc shuts of completely like there is a lack of power which was my first thought psu but then if i boot it again it doesnt crash but starts diagnostics then restarts agaion and again

now if i disconnect the 1tb drive and swap it for the ultra 2 ssd they boot up fine so it cant be the drives because they all work so ???

i have a friend that is an engineer for air bus he knows his stuff he says i need to re-image windows????? to rule out software problems

i dont get it surely u should be able to add a ssd to a pc without having to re-image

isnt that basically what hot swapping is ????

thanks for any help
 

wmrcomputers

Stafford PC & laptop repair specialist
This problem seems to become quite common when using multiple hard drives one of which is SSD on some systems.

Ok first things first, I'm assuming the OS is only on one of the SSD's and the other is just storage? Personally, I would disconnect all drives and switch on with none connected. Then add the OS drive only - boot - shut down. Then add another drive - boot - shut down etc until all drives are in a running. Generally this works. If youve tried that and it's still failing then you got other issues which could be due to bios configuration, driver issues etc. It would be hard to diagnose without seeing it.
 

Thepriceofgaz

Active Member
cheers for all the reply's wmrcomputers i will try what u advice i haven't tried that will keep u poster on what i find thanks for the reply's
 

Thepriceofgaz

Active Member
well i figured it out just before i was going to re image i had a thought i disconnected the dvd drive which is ide i know old and bam it started strait up no problems so i find that kinda weird but hey ho its sorted
 
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