Mike - I did as suggested.
Of those TWO Other regular HD's - when I plugged them in by themselves -
the one had No OS or Boot ability. The other, It had Some OS on there -
and THAT one was requesting a Fix. But, I did NOT run the Fix!
But - yeah - if I ONLY Connect in the SSD Drive - it boots No Problem!
However, if I connect Either of the other 2 drives - along with the SSD
Connected - it gives a problem.
What about the SATA Connections on the Motherboard? Is there any
specific order to connecting drives to them - which may control some
kind of Boot Order?
Again - sorry its taken me a few days to return to this problem - just
been busy...
-K-
On 7/6/2013 7:02 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
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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