Reboot and select proper boot device, win7

Xandos

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Hi guys, sorry for the boring support thread.

I just installed a new heatsink (noctua d-14), and after rebuilding my PC I get the error: "reboot and select proper boot device". The O/S drive is visible in the BIOS, and can be plugged into another machine to view data.

The only thing that has changed is which SATA ports the various HDDs are plugged in to, and the BIOS reset itself for some reason, so could
have been some settings that got ruined. When I changed the storage configuration to RAID, it now gets past the previous error, and begins booting, get the win7 splash screen, but then it reboots!

I don't have a clue what's going on, and am in desperate need of help!

Thanks for reading.
 
Yeah, I've got 3 other HDDs in the machine (before the problem), although at the moment I have just the single SSD (o/s) drive, and I have it plugged into SATA 1 at the moment.
 
I had this problem earlier this week. It turned out to be something to do with the port the hard disks were plugged into and windows looking in the wrong place for the boot sector on the disk. In the end I formatted about six times on three different hard disks, however I think there is an easier way. Plug all your hard disks back in and launch the windows 7 setup when you reboot. When you get to the bit with thye option to format drives there should be a section on one of your disks about 128meg. From what I could gather this is the windows 7 boot sector. If you have three hard disks and no partitonjs your disks should be labled disk 0, disk 1 and disk 2. I Think you want to plug the disk with the boot sector, the 128Mb partition, into SATA 1, making it show as disk 0. Let me know if you have any luck.
 
Many thanks for the reply.

Currently my O/S drive is in another machine backing up the drive, though I ran the win7 setup with all 3 other drives in it, and the drive/partition screen just showed the one partition for each of those 3 drives, leading me to assume that it's on the SSD (or doesn't exist hah), which I have tried plugged in to SATA 1....

I'm almost resigning myself to a reformat/install - might be quicker than messing with it all day and getting nowhere. But I would love to avoid that!
 
Xan_Molbjerg said:
Many thanks for the reply.

Currently my O/S drive is in another machine backing up the drive, though I ran the win7 setup with all 3 other drives in it, and the drive/partition screen just showed the one partition for each of those 3 drives, leading me to assume that it's on the SSD (or doesn't exist hah), which I have tried plugged in to SATA 1....

I'm almost resigning myself to a reformat/install - might be quicker than messing with it all day and getting nowhere. But I would love to avoid that!
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Is this a new install of 7? Was there another o/s on one of the other hdd's before you installed 7 or did you upgrade the o/s on the SDD to windows 7?
 
Just keep setting each drive as primary boot. Ive had this.

I have 6 drives in my comp. one of the storage drives died. Windows Vista wouldnt boot, spent ages wondering why when I realised it put the boot file or something on the died drive. I did get it back with using some of the repair commands and fixboot options in the repair consol.

Reload doesnt sound neccesary and is an easy fix. (unless youve broken something :()
 
Thanks for all the replies. I tried resetting CMOS, no avail. There were no installs of windows on the other drives.

I have now reinstalled windows (it's a work machine and I have a deadline, so I needed to be up and running asap), I'm sure someone more skilled could have fixed it in seconds haha.

Strangely that small partition thing wasn't on the SSD either, so don't know what was going on there....

After I'd installed windows something let me to believe that it might have been a lowly sata cable at fault here, but who knows.

Thanks for the help guys.

(now for the fun of reinstalling apps etc. woo)
 
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