Startup Problems, Windows 7 Ultimate

[Matt Kenny]

Firstly, any help will be greatly appreciated

I am currently experiencing startup problems after reinstalling Windows 7. I reinstalled to my 120GB SSD, however noticed that startup was fairly slow. After looking at partition manager, my System disk is not the SSD, but rather a 1TB HDD I have. I have tried solutions such as bootrec, however when I try to boot to my SSD, it gives me a GRUB RESCUE console. I assume this was left from a past Linux installation.

My goal is to remove GRUB from my SSD, and have my SSD as the system drive, to be able to boot into Windows 7 through it, as well as remove any of the system files from the HDD.

Additional Notes: My computer doesn't seem to have a 100% boot rate. It took 3 tries to boot into Windows, the first 2 attempts giving me grey screens. This can be temporarily fixed by system restoring, but after a day or two will come back.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Matt Kenny,

Have you removed all the drives from your computer, except for the SSD, during the OS installation?
In case you haven't done that, you can reinstall OS on the SSD with all the HDDs disconnected.
Once, the OS installation is complete, you can reattach your HDDs. Then, you can test your mechanical drive with some of these: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Overall system slow down and slower boot times could be caused by a failing secondary drive. If there is something wrong with it, you need to back up your data.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[Matt Kenny]

Hi there Matt Kenny,

Have you removed all the drives from your computer, except for the SSD, during the OS installation?
In case you haven't done that, you can reinstall OS on the SSD with all the HDDs disconnected.
Once, the OS installation is complete, you can reattach your HDDs. Then, you can test your mechanical drive with some of these: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Overall system slow down and slower boot times could be caused by a failing secondary drive. If there is something wrong with it, you need to back up your data.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

This is what I'll have to do. I hoped there'd have been a way of doing it without reinstalling, but there doesn't seem to be.
Thanks for your help!