Spare Hdd

[martymas]

recently i played around with another op sys

as i have two hdd

i targetted the spare one

ok after i finished playing

all of a sudden

i started getting blue screens

i read where xp dosent get blue screens

so i had to pinpoint the reason

on another thread i read with hdd"s

you need to format them no matter what you have put on or off

on them and perhaps this was the cause of the blue screens

ok i formatted the hdd

and so far so good

previously the hdd was empty.

but does the board think

this was the cause

and formatting has fixed the problem

ive never had a blue screen before

so i was at panic stations

thank

marty

Edited July 26, 2007 by martymas

[TheTerrorist_75]

I always nuke then format a HDD after I have trashed it with different installs/removals and before using it for any other purpose.

[WhiteWolf4]

Agree with TT

Try this is a good one and free "http://www.pcdownloadworld.com/internet/security/zilla-data-nuker.htm"

[mikex]

I have had no issues with "piggy backing" HDD to do backups and recovery. I have used Kill Disk to wipe data from the drive, then use XP format it from the disk management window. This way no need to install the complete OS, after all XP does use a number of GIGS of space.

M

[martymas]

ok thanks team

marty

[Pete_C]

XP gets blue screens , they are called stop errors. It is just that the default behavior is not to show you a BSOD, just to mysteriously restart. But if you disable the restart on system failure and enable the admin alert option in startup and recovery section then you get them.

I guess that if you did a hot reboot instead of a shutdown there may be some way that the second OS would influence windows .

[martymas]

thanks pete that is interesting info

so far the hdd is working ok so the format must have done the trick

with out you guys ide be like a fish out of water

i thought that was the problem

but i thought ide asked your opinion first

marty