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No boot after connecting second HDD

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Topic: No boot after connecting second HDD

Posted By: Skala
Subject: No boot after connecting second HDD
Date Posted: 01 May 2016 at 3:34pm

Hello,

I need help with 970 Extreme3 R2 m/b.

Freshly installed Win7-64, all drivers updated, Samsung SSD850 in AHCI mode.

When I am trying to connect second HDD ( SATA2), windows refuses to boot, stating "no bootable device". Disconnection of the HDD is not affecting this situation, I have to go through Windows Boot procedure to restore access to original boot.

Switching SATA ports in various combinations is not affecting this fault. I used 2 different HDDs, which are working fine on Gigabyte M/B with exactly the same setup: bootable SDD with Win7.

Please, advise.

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Pupkin

Replies:

Posted By: wardog
Date Posted: 03 May 2016 at 4:28pm

Was a single drive connected when you did the fresh install on this MB?

Posted By: Skala
Date Posted: 29 May 2016 at 2:20am

No, I did Win installation with SDD only. HDD has been connected after full Win installation.

AHCI mode was off during OS installation, by the way ( just forgot about it) - I have modified registry afterwards. If HDD should be present during Win installation, I can re-load OS, of course.

However, if there is a way to do it by tweaking the registry, I would appreciate the advise.

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Pupkin