Crucial SSD - not booting when primary

CrouchingPig

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Hello OCUK,
I treated myself to a Crucial SSD from the store this week.

Now it's working extremely well,
however,
If in BIOS I set it to the primary disk ~ I get "Bootmgr is missing press ctrl+alt+del to restart".

If I leave it as the secondary drive,
I get to choose to boot Win7 from both my SSD or my old OS Samsung F3.
Appears like this

Windows 7 - "my SSD OS"
Windows 7 - "my F3 OS".

Now I could format the F3 OS (which Ideally I do want to do!) but as a test, if I unplug the F3, I get the "Bootmgr is missing" msg.

I'm scared that if I format my F3, the SSD will not boot again.
I've tried pressing F8 at startup for Startup repair, says there is no problem booting from the SSD...

I've tried swapping Sata mode to and from IDE to AHCI.

Anyone have any advice or had something similar to this?

I could leave it the way it is, but I am OCD like and dislike having to wait 30s while my system auto chooses which drive it's going to boot from / or having to manually press enter to boot to the SSD OS!

Cheers,

Karl. :D
 
Did you unplug any other drives before installing on the SSD? This is to ensure all the install files go on the SSD. because if you install while there is more then one drive connected, some of the system files will go to another drive.
 
sounds like the boot files got installed onto the Samsung. There is a way to put them back onto your SSD but its complicated and can't remember it, neither remember where I found the how to.
Since you are already on a fresh install of Windows, just reinstall Windows on the SSD while making sure you unplug any other drives.
 
once booted into the ssd with the samsungs turned on

type msconfig in the start search and hit enter
click the boot tab what does it say there?
 
The quick fix is to download a program called. "Easy BCD"

Once installed, it's real easy, like the name suggests. Just select your primary OS and then change the boot time from "30" to "0"

It is default on 30. This will instantly boot into the SSD, without you needing to wait 30 seconds or press enter.

Let me know how you get on.
 
Buchanan0204 said:
The quick fix is to download a program called. "Easy BCD"

Once installed, it's real easy, like the name suggests. Just select your primary OS and then change the boot time from "30" to "0"

It is default on 30. This will instantly boot into the SSD, without you needing to wait 30 seconds or press enter.

Let me know how you get on.
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Close, he'll need EasyBCD to write a Win7 bootblock onto the SSD, then recreate the bootmenu.
It is easy, but it can be confusing if you have never worked with windows's boot procedures before.
 
I have a legit CD Key for Win 7 Home pro ~
but the disc I use to install is non-bootable,
therefore I had to install to the SSD while using Win7 on the F3 drive.

Will see if I can find a bootable version of 64 bit win 7 from a friend.

Is it common for Win7 to just choose another drive to put some boot files on?
Seems a bit of a design flaw to me?
 
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