Comment 67 for bug 441941

I'm not certain this is part of the same issue but I'll post here for my sanity and anyone else who may be having the same issue.

I was using Grub 2 1.97 beta~4 with Ubuntu 9.10 and Vista. Prior to switching to 9.10 I was running 8.04 with GRUB since beta without issue. My problem is similar in the respect that I can boot to Vista or 9.10 fine, but upon switching I've had a couple of different problems. First, during reboot, my primary HDD would fail to boot and there was an audible "clicking". I naturally thought the HDD was failing. The drive is a WD2500JD. Nearly every time the clicking happened the drive would report itself as a "WDC ROM MODEL-HAWK" and would be unbootable.

After a few power cycles I was able to get the HDD up and running and performed a backup. I attempted to sleep the computer in Vista and would sometimes blue screen upon waking. My Ubuntu loader/partition are on a completely separate drive and were unaffected by any of this. I've since restored the Vista boot loader and the drive has been fine since.

I realize that the GRUB2 shouldn't affect the ability of the drive to boot and should have no ability to cause the drive to basically report a ROM failure but I can't wrap my head around all of the problems disappearing after removing it and going to the Vista loader. I'll give this current setup a couple of days to gather some historical data and then put GRUB back on for further testing.

My specs:
Asus P5Q mobo
1x WD2500JD
2x WD2000JB
E8400 Core 2 @3.0Ghz
Vista 64, Ubuntu 9.10 x64