Trouble booting with storage drive...

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kaiweiler

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Hello all,
I am having trouble booting with my storage drive hooked up along with my boot drive.
I have it set in BIOS to boot from my primary boot drive, and the PC gets through POST, shows the sliding horizontal loading bar in the Vista boot up screen and then I just get a black screen. No HDD activity or anything.
With only my boot drive in place the PC will boot fine, no problems at all.

The boot drive:
Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB SATA2 7200RPM 16MB 8.9MS Hard Drive

The data drive:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250-GB SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

It has worked in the past but I am recently experiencing this problem.
Could it have something to do with using a SATA and SATA2 drive simultaneously?
I have tried the following:
Powering from individual rails
Trying different Sata channels
Trying different Sata cables

Anything else I should try?
 
Is there a difference if no USB devices are attached? (Including mouse/keyboard, try booting without these.)

I assume you have the boot order set correctly.
 
No difference with removed USB devices.
Also tried recovering in case some drivers were wacked or something, but no help there either.
 
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