my new SSD

[terrystar]

Hey all, I just installed my new OCZ SSD put W7 on it. A strange thing is happening though, in bios if I select the ssd as 1st boot and disable everything else W7 will not load. If I select my old WD hdd as first boot W7 loads using my ssd.

first I was having to choose which W7 to load so I diabled the Old WD from msconfig.

The drive is running fine results are very good im just confused how this has worked out.

Cheers

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

Windows 7 usually puts the MBR partition on the drive plugged into the first sata port.

So if the old WD was plugged in there, that's where it put the MBR partition..... not the drive you told it to install windows.

Check in hard-drive manager. If you've got a small unallocated or hidden partition on the WD, and nothing similar on the SSD, you'll know this is the problem.

I had the same problem when I got my SSD. I'm guessing you might be able to fix it with something like partition magic, but I just reinstalled windows with nothing but the SSD plugged in.

 

[terrystar]

Thanks for your reply jimbob27.

My WD hd still has W7 on it as that was my main drive untill I installed my new SSD.

In computer management there are no unallicated areas for either drive. This is what it says:

(D 465.76 GB NTFS
Healthy (system, Active, Primary Partition)

New Volume (C 55.90 GB NTFS
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

would like to add also this new SSD is very fast W7 doesn't even get time to say welcome and its loaded.

 

[terrystar]

Sorry about the smiles btw.