Boot Problems...

[Mireli]

Hi there,

I have two 1TBs in a RAID0 as my old OS drive, and recently purchased a SSD which I am now using as my OS drive.

I went to format the RAID0 and just use it as a storage drive, but now my SSD wont boot anymore, it is giving me a boot error on start up.

I reinstalled Win7 on my RAID, and it still wont let me boot from the SSD.

What gives? How do I fix it? Is there any detriment aside from space loss to having the OS on my storage drive as well as my SSD?

In the manage window it has my RAID as:

Healthy (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

and my SSD as

Healthy (System, Active, Primary Parition)

 

[RebateMonger]

If you cloned the old array onto the SSD, be aware that Windows can't handle two "identical" disks in the same sytem. I'll make one of them unbootable.

 

[Mireli]

No I didn't clone them.

I simply just installed Windows on the ssd.

Should I just format both and start again? Will I run into the same error?

 

[=Wendy=]

Did you set the boot flag to "enabled" on your SSD array when you created the array in the RAID BIOS?

Also, sometimes Win7 gets confused when installing, and ends up putting the boot info on some random drive.
Solution, unplug all other HDD when installing Win7, making sure that the complete install can only be on the SSD RAID array.

 

[Old Hippie]

sometimes Win7 gets confused when installing, and ends up putting the boot info on some random drive.

Definately sounds like the problem here.

Sounds like you installed W7 on the SSD while the RAID array was plugged in.

Like Wendy explained, when installing an OS (operating system) disconnect all non-OS drives.