Barracuda XT, Barracuda, Barracuda Green, DiamondMax and other desktop SATA and IDE drives

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After 2 failing 128GB Crucial SSD's, I went out and boughyt myself a Barracuda "Green" SATA 1TB HD Drive.

After physically installing the drive I checked that the BIOS had found it OK. I then used Partition Magic to create a 100GB partition and formated it NTFS. (Simples) "not".

All going great guns, I proceeded with the Windows 7 (64 bit genuine full version) installation. It loaded the drivers (graduation bar at the bottom of the screen), then the stupid Windows logo, and then an error screen "OXC0000225 Windows failed to load" check your hardware/software. That's as far as it got.

I tried the 32 bit version and that loads OK with no problems.

I've searched the forum and found a similar problem but it occurs at the stage where you choose where you want to install Windows.

Can anyone tell me what's going on here? Is there a problem with this disk drive and the 64 bit version of Windows?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Cantbecanit]

Try it without Part Magic, Win 7 will create a 100mb partition anyway, are you AHCi enabled in the bios? if you are and failed to give Win 7 the driver when it asks for it this will bsod you as well.

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Cantbecanit wrote:

Try it without Part Magic, Win 7 will create a 100mb partition anyway, are you AHCi enabled in the bios? if you are and failed to give Win 7 the driver when it asks for it this will BSOD you as well.

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Thank you for you help "Cantbecanit".

First of all, AHCI was NOT enabled.

I removed the Part Magic partition, tried again and got the same result. It is not the BSOD as such but a black screen with this information:-

Windows Boot Manager.

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:

1, Insert your Windows installation disk and restart your computer.

2, Choose your language settings and then click next.

3, Click "Repair your computer"

If you do not have the disk, contact your system admin or your computer manufacturer for assistance.

Status: 0xc0000225

Info: An unexpected error has occurred. Press enter to continue.

I then went into the BIOS and changed the IDE setting to AHCI and tried again. I noticed then that the startup screen was different and went on to display 

"AHCI option ROM BIOS revision 01.06.70"

Port 00: ST1000DL002-9TT153 SATA-2, Hard Disk, 1000GB

Port 01: TssTcorp CDDVDW SN-S083C SATA-2. CD_ROM/DVD-ROM

AHCI BIOS Installed!!

CPU type

CPU ID

CPU clock

Pri. Master Disk: None

Pri. Slave: None

Sec. Master: None

Sec. Slave. None

Then some PCI device listings and Finally:-

Verifying DMI pool Data and eventually the Windows installation starts but I get the same error screen as stated above. At no stage was I asked to supply a driver.

btw, as I stated in my first post, I was originally running a SATA 128GB SSD drive that suddenly went kaput and the BIOS was set to IDE and not AHCI. I really don't know what this setting is for.

Is it at all possible that this disk is not 64 bit compatible?

I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me where I go from here?

[Cantbecanit]

I don't have much time right now, but try this if you had a drive go bad and this is a new one to replace.

Check the cables, especially the sata one and at both end's.

Remove the MB battery for a few minutes, this should remove anything that might still be looking for the old drive

Make sure HDD is set as first boot device in bios.

I'll be about tomorrow, so try those and if it don't fix it we'll look for other avenues.

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Cantbecanit wrote:

I don't have much time right now, but try this if you had a drive go bad and this is a new one to replace.

Check the cables, especially the sata one and at both end's.

Remove the MB battery for a few minutes, this should remove anything that might still be looking for the old drive

Make sure HDD is set as first boot device in bios.

I'll be about tomorrow, so try those and if it don't fix it we'll look for other avenues.

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Hi there, I have to say I'm impressed and thank you for your assistance.To be honest I thought I would have been flooded with help and advise on this forum, but for some reason apparently not.

The cable connections had to be OK because Windows 32 bit installed without a hitch. However I did remove the battery for a while and after replacing it I tried the 64 bit version again. There was no error screen this time and Windows 64 bit is installing as I'm writing this message. All being well it should be OK (as I'm touching the wooden table leg).

Can you explain to me how the BIOS can remember anything apart from what it's supposed to?

Cheers and thanks again.

[Cantbecanit · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure why it does it, but the old battery out trick cures all manner of things in a PC, glad it sorted it for you.

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Appreciated

[Southerner]

Change the drive type from AHCI to IDE in the bios.  That solved my problem with the 0xc0000225 error.