RAID, Windows 7, now can't boot from DVD?

[Dougmeister]

Long story made short:

1) boot drive died
2) bought new hard drives and implemented RAID 1 for my new boot drive
3) installed Windows 7 again
4) disconnected the SATA power/data cables from my DVD burner and hooked them up to another SATA drive to transfer files from a drive that didn't die
5) re-connected SATA DVD drive, but now for some reason, I can't boot from the DVD drive. The option never comes up while booting.

The BIOS boot order preference *was*: 1) floppy, 2) CD/DVD, 3) hard drive. I even disabled hard drive boot (and floppy), moving CD/DVD to #1, and it *still* boots to the hard drive.

The reason is that my networking settings have gotten screwed up and I thought maybe I'd just re-install Windows 7.

Any ideas?

 

[goobernoodles]

Go into your BIOS and check to see if the burner is being picked up by the BIOS. Sounds like you may need to rescan for drives manually.

 

[Bearach]

Long story made short:

1) boot drive died
2) bought new hard drives and implemented RAID 1 for my new boot drive
3) installed Windows 7 again
4) disconnected the SATA power/data cables from my DVD burner and hooked them up to another SATA drive to transfer files from a drive that didn't die
5) re-connected SATA DVD drive, but now for some reason, I can't boot from the DVD drive. The option never comes up while booting.

The BIOS boot order preference *was*: 1) floppy, 2) CD/DVD, 3) hard drive. I even disabled hard drive boot (and floppy), moving CD/DVD to #1, and it *still* boots to the hard drive.

The reason is that my networking settings have gotten screwed up and I thought maybe I'd just re-install Windows 7.

Any ideas?

Your BIOS is probably set to AHCI/Raid, thus you need to change the sequence to the actual drive for example : HT-DT-ST DVDRAM and not just CD/DVD drive. It should be listed when you open up the submenu.

 

[Dougmeister]

That was it. Thanks.

 

[Bearach]

That was it. Thanks.

If that was directed to me, you're welcome 🙂