Sorry to throw this to the forum but I've not managed to find anything useful with google...
Short version- I have a fairly new windows 7 install on a Crucial MX100 SSD, which works absolutely fine in isolation. But if I connect any other drive, it fails to enter windows. Failure mode is the classic black screen, "BOOTMGR is missing, press ctrl-alt-del to restart". But removing the HDDs resolves the issue and everything boots normally.
Obvious things first; I have changed the boot order. I've also gone through the bios screens to manually force a boot from the SSD. Also connected the SSD to sata port 0 and the other drives to later ones (though, this was never an issue before, apparently it's the correct way)
Both hard drives I've tried have worked in conjunction with this SSD in the past. As far as I can tell none of the 3 devices have any sort of boot drive jumper. And neither of the 2 HDDs have any windows installs on them.
(Barracuda 2tb SD2000DM001 and older Samsung HD752LJ)
In case it's relevant; the reason for the windows install was an unrecoverable failure of a previous install, which would boot into windows then hang about 10 seconds in. No sign of any issues with the second HDD which was the barracuda at the time. The Samsung wasn't in the case at the time, it's my backup drive. All drives seem to detect normally in bios.
There's an option in the boot order, "windows boot manager (p0 crucial CT512" which is truncated but clearly refers to the SSD. I've tried setting first boot as both the boot manager and the SSD, neither one bloomin works.
I am completely out of ideas... I've done clean installs with these parts before without any issues, and tbf adding hdds isn't normally complex! Since the last windows install I replaced the processor, from a G3258 to an i7, but that's the only hardware change. Really not keen to do another windows install right now especially since I don't know what the issue actually is...
So- any suggestions very gratefully received!
Short version- I have a fairly new windows 7 install on a Crucial MX100 SSD, which works absolutely fine in isolation. But if I connect any other drive, it fails to enter windows. Failure mode is the classic black screen, "BOOTMGR is missing, press ctrl-alt-del to restart". But removing the HDDs resolves the issue and everything boots normally.
Obvious things first; I have changed the boot order. I've also gone through the bios screens to manually force a boot from the SSD. Also connected the SSD to sata port 0 and the other drives to later ones (though, this was never an issue before, apparently it's the correct way)
Both hard drives I've tried have worked in conjunction with this SSD in the past. As far as I can tell none of the 3 devices have any sort of boot drive jumper. And neither of the 2 HDDs have any windows installs on them.
(Barracuda 2tb SD2000DM001 and older Samsung HD752LJ)
In case it's relevant; the reason for the windows install was an unrecoverable failure of a previous install, which would boot into windows then hang about 10 seconds in. No sign of any issues with the second HDD which was the barracuda at the time. The Samsung wasn't in the case at the time, it's my backup drive. All drives seem to detect normally in bios.
There's an option in the boot order, "windows boot manager (p0 crucial CT512" which is truncated but clearly refers to the SSD. I've tried setting first boot as both the boot manager and the SSD, neither one bloomin works.
I am completely out of ideas... I've done clean installs with these parts before without any issues, and tbf adding hdds isn't normally complex! Since the last windows install I replaced the processor, from a G3258 to an i7, but that's the only hardware change. Really not keen to do another windows install right now especially since I don't know what the issue actually is...
So- any suggestions very gratefully received!
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