First post, by Kurasiu
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Well, ok, the title is a bit misleading, as it didn't bluescreen from the very beginning, but nonetheless: recently I picked up an 80GB PATA hard drive from a local pawn shop. Worked like a charm for several days. However during one startup Windows informed me that the drive may have bad sectors on it, and a scandisk /surface is required. After that Windows (98 SE) pretty much refused to work - everytime a 0E fatal exception at 0028:XXXXXXXX bluescreen occured during every system startup, before the Net Logon prompt - and an unrecoverable one, as the system refuses to load anything after the bluescreen, shows only the wallpaper and that's it.
Decided to boot to DOS 7.0, copy the most valuable files from the second drive (several things were already installed on it), downloaded Hiren's Boot CD and performed a low level format. Seemed like it did the trick, as scandisk, or any other drive utility, didn't show bad sectors any more. Well, all is nice - but Windows is still throwing a bluescreen on every startup.
And here's the thing - the system loads and works like a charm, when the second HDD is disconnected.
So my question is - any way to restore the system and/or the HDD, so they can be both used again? Already tried reformatting/fdisking the HDD, deleting every single trace of software that was installed on the second drive in Windows, but still no avail. Any solution to this one?
EDIT: bump, as I saw that Windows will indeed work with the second HDD... but only when the CD ROM is disconnected. Wow, an IDE devices conflict?