Problems with boot and restoring

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I've been having a really odd issue that I'm not sure is caused by my hd or not.

I recently installed a new HD (WD Blue 1tb) to replace a Samsung Spinpoint F3 (also 1tb but is only sata 2). Everyhing was fine for a couple of weeks and then my pc randomly turned on after shutting down successfully (next morning when i booted it up) and refused to load windows. It was stating a corrupt file and saying that I had to recover windows. Did that and all was fine. Then this has happened a few times in the past couple of weeks. Today I thought it might be the ports I was plugged into on the Mobo but doesn't appear to be. When swapping plugs around I had some serious boot issues but believe this was caused by windows restore crashing during the boot recovery and messing up completely. Managed to get it working again now though.

I'm not sure if it's a windows install issue, the fact i have my os on the older samsung and am using the wd to backup currecntly. Could the drives be looking at the wrong hd on boot despite showing in the bios as being correct and in the right order? I'm just lost and out of my depth now. My pc is only a few months old and built by myself so no where to really turn so any help would be awesome.

Spec is:

Asus Sabertooth P67
I7 2600k 3.4 ghz (not over clocked currently and haven't fiddled with the bios yet)
8 gb Gskill 1600 DDR3 ram
750w OCZ PSU
560 GTX TI
1tb samsung spinpoint f3 (think this is the issue for some reason)
1 tb wd caviar blue

Anyone got any ideas or things to test?
 
Thanks Orc. The P67 Sabertooth has two white ports which are hard ware controlled and not mobo controlled so take it they are the Marvell ports you are talking about?

I'll update the bios as well at the same time and also update the samsung disc software in the bios - read a few forums and apparently the Spinpoint F3 has some issues with P67 mobos.
 
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