tom_gr7
Life Serving
Hi,
Looking for some help please.
Last night windows decided to update something as it was shutting down. I'm not sure what update it was as I wasnt particulary paying attention. After the update the PC shut down as normal.
I turned the PC on this afternoon and before I even got to the login screen, the screen went blue i got some sort of BSOD.
The PC restarted itself a few times and BSOD occured at the same place each time.
So i disconnected my external HDD (4tb WD elements) and the PC then booted into windows fine.
So i then tried to plug it back in again. I was intending to run some sort of Hard Drive check. But when i plugged the drive back in again, I had another BSOD within 5-10 seconds of the hdd spinning up.
I disconnected the HDD and restarted again. I ran a virus scan, via avast and malwearbytes nothing found. I also ran memtest - passed fine.
So everytime i plug the external hdd in (that worked before the windows update) it BSOD's.
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I then got out my old PCS laptop on a clean win 7 install, plugged the hdd and bingo the drive works perfectly fine.
Im at a loss as how to fix this, so any ideas would be great.
thanks
Looking for some help please.
Last night windows decided to update something as it was shutting down. I'm not sure what update it was as I wasnt particulary paying attention. After the update the PC shut down as normal.
I turned the PC on this afternoon and before I even got to the login screen, the screen went blue i got some sort of BSOD.
The PC restarted itself a few times and BSOD occured at the same place each time.
So i disconnected my external HDD (4tb WD elements) and the PC then booted into windows fine.
So i then tried to plug it back in again. I was intending to run some sort of Hard Drive check. But when i plugged the drive back in again, I had another BSOD within 5-10 seconds of the hdd spinning up.
I disconnected the HDD and restarted again. I ran a virus scan, via avast and malwearbytes nothing found. I also ran memtest - passed fine.
So everytime i plug the external hdd in (that worked before the windows update) it BSOD's.
-----
I then got out my old PCS laptop on a clean win 7 install, plugged the hdd and bingo the drive works perfectly fine.
Im at a loss as how to fix this, so any ideas would be great.
thanks