Booting from SSD problems?

JoshBrowne · 7 Jan 2011 at 10:41

I got myself a Corsair Force 60gb the other day, and have literally been blown away by it, but having boot difficulties.

I'm using an Asus P6X58D-E mobo, and in the BIOS, have storage configuration set to AHCI, and have my SSD set as my primary HDD, and have the SSD in the first position in the boot order, but when I try to boot I'm asked to reboot or insert proper boot device? What's wrong?

I have my Mirrored raid drives still connected to the sSATA-III ports and the SSD is connected to a SATA-II port, and if I revert to my old settings, (using the Raid as my primary boot device) I can boot into the SSD - on boot it asks me which OS to load (either 7 on my raid or 7 on the SSD) and yeah, the SSD plays ball with those settings...

I'm assuming that once I've formatted my Raid it'll boot automatically as it won't have a choice to make but it's still not right.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Josh.

Justintime · 7 Jan 2011 at 10:51

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2282-default-operating-system-change-default-boot-os.html

That should help.

arknor · 7 Jan 2011 at 10:54

sounds like you installed the os onto the ssd with other raid drives connected with an already existing windows install.

windows recognises this and sets a boot sector up on the previous windows drive so the ssd relies on the other drives boot sector.

if you boot into the install on the raid drive and right click on "my computer" > properties > click advanced system settings > and on the advanced tab under "startup and recovery" click settings

in there you can choose the default OS to boot into but the SSD will always rely on the boot sector from your mirrored raid.

you can either live with it or unplug the raid drives and reinstall windows onto the SSD, or unplug the other drives and boot into thew windows disc and in the recovery tools try to repair the boot sector and see if it makes a working bootsector on the ssd

JoshBrowne · 7 Jan 2011 at 11:20

arknor said:
sounds like you installed the os onto the ssd with other raid drives connected with an already existing windows install.

windows recognises this and sets a boot sector up on the previous windows drive so the ssd relies on the other drives boot sector.

if you boot into the install on the raid drive and right click on "my computer" > properties > click advanced system settings > and on the advanced tab under "startup and recovery" click settings

in there you can choose the default OS to boot into but the SSD will always rely on the boot sector from your mirrored raid.

you can either live with it or unplug the raid drives and reinstall windows onto the SSD, or unplug the other drives and boot into thew windows disc and in the recovery tools try to repair the boot sector and see if it makes a working bootsector on the ssd

You're correct about the fact that the old OS was still installed so sounds like you've given me the answer I needed. Thank you very much - I hate that I'm at work right now - I want to go home and play

hehe.

Thanks for your suggestion as well Justintime.

When I find the time to experiment with these ideas I'll post again to let you know if it was successful.

Thanks again.

JoshBrowne · 7 Jan 2011 at 21:46

Just to let anyone reading this know, Arknor was right in the reply they posted above! Reinstalled with the raid array disconected and it's working flawlessly. Thanks again.