manns41078
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Hi everyone.
I've run into a situation I've never seen before.
My HDD setup is as follows on my laptop:
NTFS (pretty sure)
Primary drive is a small 32GB ssd where Windows 7 was installed
Secondary drive is a 320GB WD blue that seems to be failing.
After a couple BSOD crashes I pulled the drives and checked them out. The primary was readable on other machines and passed various tests. The secondary spins up, will appear in the device manager, but will not appear as a drive. So I'm assuming it's fried. Oddly though I NEED to have this drive installed in the laptop for it to boot up... otherwise it says no boot device exists.
I think this is because I set the disk up as a dynamic disk. I also set up the primary this way probably due to its small size and I was likely experimenting with trying to make the 2 drives look as they were one.
If I have both drives connected I can boot just fine, but windows won't recognize the secondary 320GB drive. However the BIOS notices it and it appears in Windows Disk Management, but it appears as unconnected and will not let me reconnect it. Disk Management does show 2 partitions on the disk. One of which is a small 100MB partition that I assume Windows has written boot info to. It looks like the typical "System Reserved" partition which is usually on the primary drive.
I'm not sure how I did that, but I'll be trying to avoid it when/if I reinstall Windows.
It would be nice not to have to reinstall Windows.
Does anyone know if I can fix this without reinstalling Windows? Can I make a System Reserved partition on the primary drive?
Thanks for the help!
I've run into a situation I've never seen before.
My HDD setup is as follows on my laptop:
NTFS (pretty sure)
Primary drive is a small 32GB ssd where Windows 7 was installed
Secondary drive is a 320GB WD blue that seems to be failing.
After a couple BSOD crashes I pulled the drives and checked them out. The primary was readable on other machines and passed various tests. The secondary spins up, will appear in the device manager, but will not appear as a drive. So I'm assuming it's fried. Oddly though I NEED to have this drive installed in the laptop for it to boot up... otherwise it says no boot device exists.
I think this is because I set the disk up as a dynamic disk. I also set up the primary this way probably due to its small size and I was likely experimenting with trying to make the 2 drives look as they were one.
If I have both drives connected I can boot just fine, but windows won't recognize the secondary 320GB drive. However the BIOS notices it and it appears in Windows Disk Management, but it appears as unconnected and will not let me reconnect it. Disk Management does show 2 partitions on the disk. One of which is a small 100MB partition that I assume Windows has written boot info to. It looks like the typical "System Reserved" partition which is usually on the primary drive.
I'm not sure how I did that, but I'll be trying to avoid it when/if I reinstall Windows.
It would be nice not to have to reinstall Windows.
Does anyone know if I can fix this without reinstalling Windows? Can I make a System Reserved partition on the primary drive?
Thanks for the help!