Second Hard Drive Troubles

[Eschatos]

I finally got my computer working, and reformatted my first hard drive.  The computer runs fine with just the first hard drive, but when I plug in the second HD and turn it on I just get a blue screen of death.  Is there any way to stop the second hard drive from running anything on boot, and just act like a flash drive so I can either get it to work or transfer my stuff off it before reformatting?  I really don't want to lose all my torrents/music/Steam files.

[CaffeinePowered]

Do you notice any funny sounds when it spins up?

If you dont want to "run" it on startup, the best bet is to buy an external enclosure and plug it in via USB, that is....if it still is work-able at all

[Wedge]

Unless your second hdd somehow got set to be your boot drive, it shouldn't be running anything on boot.  If it's causing the OS on your first drive to explode, that's probably a bad sign.  If by chance you are still using IDE drives, you may want to set the jumper pin on the second HDD to slave?

[copulatingduck]

I finally got my computer working, and reformatted my first hard drive.  The computer runs fine with just the first hard drive, but when I plug in the second HD and turn it on I just get a blue screen of death.  Is there any way to stop the second hard drive from running anything on boot, and just act like a flash drive so I can either get it to work or transfer my stuff off it before reformatting?  I really don't want to lose all my torrents/music/Steam files.

put it in an enclosure

[Blues]

Boot order can be managed through BIOS options.

This means nothing, however, if you're using IDE drives and the jumpers are set incorrectly. The easiet method is to set everything to cable select and put the drive you want to boot on the primary, secondary drive on secondary.