grrr, PC won't load windows anymore

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had my new drive ext for a few days and decided to connect internally. swapped it with a sata dvd writer i had. just sticks on 'starting windows'.
ok, swap back to old config. same. am now swapping drive boot order in the bios and no matter which one i select it still sticks on 'starting windows'. i might be wrong but if i choose to boot off a drive without the boot sector on it, then shouldn't i get an error?

oddly, even popping in a win7 cd i just burnt off sticks on loading windows as well :o

win7 RC x64
intel d975xbx mobo
 
mine hasn't changed. i just disconnected my 2 raptors ( not sure which i boot off yet) and get a no bootable devicee error. now when i popin that win7 dvd it goes further than last time.

am guessing i screwed the pooch on my install disk somehow. at least it isn't a physical fault. now to try 1 raptor at a time
 
screw it. not worth the time. i've unplugged the rappies and connected them to my other pc. i'm making images, wiping em and starting again. could have installed win7 3 times over tonight.
 
with just the rappies earlier it didn't. now both are formatted. i'm going to pop in one drive at a time when i get home and try to boot off a cd or something and see which drive causes things to stop.
 
ok, trying again. 1 drive at a time and so far it's working. am doing a basic 'does it start the windows installation' test

sata dvdwriter and now on my 3rd hard disk connected. all to the intel controllers only.

sil and ide drives are disconnected

this will either really annoy me and just work now, or it'll be a drive or a sata port on the sil thats gone.

update

ok, works with 8 sata hard drives in there (sata dvd writer disconnected). 1 IDE drive to go. think i have a feeling i know what's up in this saga
 
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ok i was right as to the what, just not the why.

i connected the IDE drive and the win install disk went to load something or other. i have a drive with a true crypt partition and assumed that was screwing it up. ive connected it up to another pc now externally and it's just a normal drive. the truecrypt one inst causing any probs at all. somehow, during all this messing around this drive has gone funky and is stopping windows from booting and now from installing again. bizarre.

i'm backing it up and wiping it. hopefully that will sort it.

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yay, sorted :D
 
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