GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 Hard Drives Booting incorrectly

[SpiralArrow]

I have 4 hard drives. I have one with win 7 that I am using as my main hard drive and 3 others that have been used for other things but that I want to use as extras in my new computer. I can see any of the drives in the BIOS and I have it set ti AHCI but when I set it to boot from my main drive it still refuses to do so. I will either get an ubuntu start up from the other drive or windows will start to load, ask me if I want to start in safe mode, and then it will restart the computer but never actually boot in windows.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Try booting with only your Windows HDD connected, if it still fails to load (even in safe mode) you need to repair your windows installation with your Windows DVD installer, after repairing and successfully booting into Windows connect the other drives, start your PC, enter BIOS and make sure your Windows Drive is set as primary boot disk.

 

[SpiralArrow]

I did not mention in original post but when connected by it self the win 7 drive works fine. The issue is that when I do connect another drive and set the Windows drive as the primary boot it is still booting incorrectly.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

hmm I see, two things to try, connect your Win 7 Drive to port 0, also in BIOS right under where you select the boot priority, there's an option like "Hard Drive BBS Priorities", in there make sure that only your Win 7 disk is listed and remove the other one if it appears.

 

[SpiralArrow]

I moved my main drive to port 0 and made sure it was the only thing in the BBS priorities but when windows tried to start it began the same way as before by windows crapping out. Then saying loading files. This time however when it was done failing instead of switching to another drive it went to black screen that said "Reboot and select proper boot drive."

Any advice on why that would happen?

Edited for typos.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

My only guess is that your Linux installation's GRUB has also altered your Windows 7 BCD/MBR files, making it to search for the drive where Linux is installed and once detected something happens that causes the failure...

I have no experience dual booting with Linux but perhaps EasyBCD would also fix it? that software is used to fix the BCD/MBR when dual booting Windows XP with Vista/7/8, perhaps it also can repair when dual booting with Linux (can't remember if it has that option).

In any case, try to look for a guide for dual booting Windows with Linux, there might be one step you missed.