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I was trying to diagnose a faulty SATA hard drive from a laptop.
I thought I'd unplug one of my hard drives and connect the faulty hard drive, and see if I could read it. Windows wouldn't boot. And no, it wasn't the C drive I disconnected.
After some playing with a floppy disk based recovery tool to no avail I removed the faulty drive and reconnected the original drive, only to find that Windows 8 started up and promptly did a System Restore.
After a long time, it started Windows and everything seems to be OK.
But this wouldn't have been a problem with XP, I'm sure!
Is this something to do with the way Windows 8 saves its state on shutdown, and getting upset when things aren't the same on next boot??
I thought I'd unplug one of my hard drives and connect the faulty hard drive, and see if I could read it. Windows wouldn't boot. And no, it wasn't the C drive I disconnected.
After some playing with a floppy disk based recovery tool to no avail I removed the faulty drive and reconnected the original drive, only to find that Windows 8 started up and promptly did a System Restore.
After a long time, it started Windows and everything seems to be OK.
But this wouldn't have been a problem with XP, I'm sure!
Is this something to do with the way Windows 8 saves its state on shutdown, and getting upset when things aren't the same on next boot??