Posted July 13, 2010
Hello, fellow gogers.
Last weekend I moved into São Paulo and took most of my things, leaving the rest in Campinas at my girlfriend’s. I brought my PC, but left all my DVDs.
Anyway, yesterday I tried to start my desktop PC for the first time since the move and after going into Win Vista, it crashed with a blue screen of death before finishing loading the last startup programs (though it reached the desktop screen). Every subsequent boot failed, BSODing before reaching the desktop.
I booted into safe mode and set up a scandisk for the next boot. The next boot, win runs disk checks on both my HDs and reboots after ending. Next boot, BSOD again.
Tried to enter safe mode again and it locked up loading crcdisks.sys and after some time, rebooted by itself.
Now… here comes some explanations about my setup: I have an Asus extreme gamer motherboard and two HDs: A sata drive with windows installed in it (my drive C) and an IDE drive (drive D).
For some reason I don’t quite understand, I had to set up Drive D as primary slave so that the computer would boot. Otherwise, I have to have a Win Vista DVD on my DVD drive to boot the machine.
So… next attempt: I entered the bios setup and removed my drive D from primary slave. After that, windows wouldn’t load: boot failure.
So, I get back into setup and re add drive D as primary slave, but… it still fails to boot with the same boot failure error.
Finally, I ask you guys: what on God’s Earth is wrong with my machine and is there a way to fix it up without loosing everything I have in both HDs?
Last weekend I moved into São Paulo and took most of my things, leaving the rest in Campinas at my girlfriend’s. I brought my PC, but left all my DVDs.
Anyway, yesterday I tried to start my desktop PC for the first time since the move and after going into Win Vista, it crashed with a blue screen of death before finishing loading the last startup programs (though it reached the desktop screen). Every subsequent boot failed, BSODing before reaching the desktop.
I booted into safe mode and set up a scandisk for the next boot. The next boot, win runs disk checks on both my HDs and reboots after ending. Next boot, BSOD again.
Tried to enter safe mode again and it locked up loading crcdisks.sys and after some time, rebooted by itself.
Now… here comes some explanations about my setup: I have an Asus extreme gamer motherboard and two HDs: A sata drive with windows installed in it (my drive C) and an IDE drive (drive D).
For some reason I don’t quite understand, I had to set up Drive D as primary slave so that the computer would boot. Otherwise, I have to have a Win Vista DVD on my DVD drive to boot the machine.
So… next attempt: I entered the bios setup and removed my drive D from primary slave. After that, windows wouldn’t load: boot failure.
So, I get back into setup and re add drive D as primary slave, but… it still fails to boot with the same boot failure error.
Finally, I ask you guys: what on God’s Earth is wrong with my machine and is there a way to fix it up without loosing everything I have in both HDs?
This question / problem has been solved by dawvee
