Can a 2nd HDD cause a blue screen?

Question

Iron

I would like to know if a blue screen can occur due to a second hard drive?

Answer 1

theoretically it can if the power supply is old, but in practice hdd does not consume very much.

Answer 2

It is unlikely that the drive itself is the cause.
But the reason may be the disk controller on the motherboard. Although the problem may be in the controller, this problem may not appear when the disk is not connected. Those. there is no problem without a disk, there is a problem with the disk, although the disk itself is in good condition. In this case, you can try connecting the same drive to a different port on the board.

Answer 3

Maybe at least it can slow down when loading at the moment of determining the file system of the disk (who knows what kind of rubbish it can read from a broken sector), or for example, the bootloader (mbr) on the first and the boot partition itself (boot) on the second disk

Answer 4

Maybe because of anything. But why guess when you can look at the error code...