Windows Boot Problem

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Last night I turned my computer on and once it got to the Windows 2000 logo loading screen it seemed to hang with the blue bar about half way accross. I tried booting into safe mode and the load hangs on the system file TDI.sys. I left it there for about 20 minutes and eventually it reached the login screen. I performed a virus scan but that came up negative. Then I noticed that the system wasn't showing my 2nd SATA HD during boot, and booting into UBCD and using IBMs DFT it can't detect the HD. I havn't had a look inside the system yet, i'll do that when I get home.

The system has been performing perfectly up until last night. The only hardware change was me disconnecting the 2nd monitor attatched to the system. Anyone got any ideas?

Edit: Seems the link the Anandtech systems page doesn't work.

CPU: Athlon 64 3500+ (Winchester Core)
Heatsink: Thermalright XP-120
Motherboard: DFI NF4 Ultra-D
RAM: 1gb Corsair PC3200 Twin-X
Graphics Card: Sapphire x850 XT PE
Monitor: Iiyama VM Pro 451
Sound Card: Augidy 2 ZS 7.1
Headphones: Sennheiser HD580
PSU: OCZ Powerstream 520w
Case: Antex P180
DVD-ROM: Plextor PX-130A
DVD-RW: LG GSA-4163B
HD One: IBM 120GXP 120GB
HD Two: IBM 7K250 250GB on SATA1
HD Three: IBM 7K250 250GB on SATA2
Mouse: Logitech MX1000
 
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Try unplugging that second HDD it isn't detecting and see if your boot speeds up and if everything goes back to normally, knowing Windows it probably won't but if it does then you know where your fault is.
 
I moved the drive from SATA2 to SATA4 and it came back up. I ran an advanced diagnostic on it via Drive Fitness Test but the drive came back clean. The system also boots up fine now. Guess that's that problem solved.
 
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