That makes me wonder...did you do (somehow) any OS installation to, for
example, Drive #2 while Drive #1 was also connected? (Drive #1 being the
SSD.)
To get things back to "understandable" I would
1. Disconnect all drives except the SSD, Drive #1
2. Boot and accept any offer to repair...unless you see the word
"format" used. Win 7 shouldn't do anything destructive...will probably
just rewrite the boot sector.
3. Once you're able to boot Drive #1 to Win7 and everything is normal...
4. Disconnect Drive #1 and connect only Drive #2.
5. Boot, see if it boots (whatever OS is on it) normally.
6. Repeat for Drive #3, #4, to whatever...always having ONLY one drive
connected at a time.
Then, and only then, would I go back and connect Drive #1 + Drive #2
(and no others) and set the BIOS to boot to the SSD. Boot and see what
happens.
I suppose it is possible your BIOS is not handling the SSD well,
although my experience is that SSDs are presented as standard SATA
drives to the OS. Although the OS needs to go a little above and beyond
the Windows 98 level of disc IO, that shouldn't affect how it boots.
You might Google whatever BIOS you have (Phoenix, Award, whatever)
including the version and see if it has any info about incompatible with
SSDs. I'm sure it's possible but I wouldn't expect it unless you're
using a Mainboard that is 12 to 15 years old...and then it wouldn't have
SATA connectors, just IDE.
Mike Copeland
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [NF] Win7 Install Woes - Part II...
From: Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 7/6/2013 5:21 PM
Hey Mike - yes, sorry if I wasn't clear. Yeah - the SSD is the one I
just installed the OS on - to get this baby up & running. But, upon
connecting these Other 2 HD's (traditional - not SSD) - its not
booting right. And, I did go into the BIOS and tell it that I want the
SSD to be the BOOT HD. But, it was still giving me problems. I just
disconneted ONE of those other HD's - before I just read your reply
here - and, the thing attempt to boot - but, then claims it needs to
Repair the OS during the boot process - which I said NO to!
So - still not understanding why its giving me boot problems - but
ONLY when I attached these other 2 HD's!
-K-
On 7/6/2013 6:10 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
I've reread your post twice and it's not clear...
You have 1 SSD and 2 standard rotating HDs in the system?
The SSD has ONLY Win 7 installed on it, while "other" OSs are
installed on the two mechanical HDs?
The BIOS of the Mainboard will, typically, allow you to choose which
HD to boot from. If you have 1 or 100 HDs installed in a system, only
one will be the boot disc. The others may, or may not, be accessible
as file storage devices (probably as drives E, F, G, H, and so on),
depending on their file storage formatting. But the second and
subsequent drives won't interfere with the booting from the "chosen"
drive in the BIOS.
If they are (interfering) then you should be able to simply
disconnect them and the SSD should boot fine.
Mike Copeland
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [NF] Win7 Install Woes - Part II...
From: Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 7/6/2013 4:57 PM
OK - so, I got Win7 installed - and I am rockin' & rollin'. But, now
I have a new issue...
The main HD is an SSD. And, now, I'm trying to get some other older
HD's running on the system - there are 2 of them - and they are SATA
drives. But, now - when it tries to boot up - seems there must be
some kinda Clash - as the OS claims to try to be starting up - and
those colorful swirling dots appear - but, like only 3 appear - and
they start to swirl - and then they just HALT & sit there! WTF?!?
Seems to me that maybe there is some kinda Clashing between the SATA
Drives. I'm NO HW expert - and I will admit that up front! So - I
don't really know exactly why it won't boot now.
Any suggestions???
TIA,
-K-
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