Two C: Drives?

[Geosurface]

Yesterday I was working on changing my C: drive from an 80gb SSD to a 180gb SSD (both Intel)

I have an ASUS UEFI mobo, P8Z68-V

This motherboard and it's bios have given me some headaches since I built the system last January. Sometimes when I'd be doing anything with the bios it would stop seeing the C: drive, and give me a line about inserting a proper boot media or something, the solution to THAT which a lot of people suggest is reinstalling Windows on the drive in question, but I always managed to do something to where it would start seeing the drive again (sometimes just unplugging the drive and plugging it back in would do it, I never quite understood exactly what the trick was)

With my new SSD it seems like it might've been doing the same thing, but CURRENTLY I have a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit Home Premium on the new drive. Currently the old SSD isn't showing up. The thing is, I need to get access to it again to transfer over stuff from it, etc. Last night I just got started on the fresh install on this drive because it was being particularly lame about showing up and I wanted to get moving on something productive...

Now this drive is called C:, so what if I do manage to get them both to show up at once? Which one will get to be called C:? What are some pitfalls to this I need to be aware of?

And does anyone have any good advice on getting around this headache with the UEFI not recognizing drives some of the time or saying a drive it DOES recognize is not valid to boot from when it absolutely is?

 

[RealBeast]

I don't think that it is a hardware or Windows 7 issues, it is most likely the SRP bootloader is messed up. What cloning software did you use and did you clone the SRP and then the OS to the new drive -- usually best when you clone not to assign a drive letter and have a system repair disc made up to repair the bootloader when you fire up with the new drive. (you can make the repair disc by typing that in the start button search window and follow the wizard)

I clone a couple systems at least monthly with Ghost 15 and never have issues on that same board. In the boot order make sure the correct SSD is listed first and not one that starts with UEFI . . . .

 

[Geosurface]

Thanks for the reply, I'm not cloning I'm doing a fresh install on the new C: drive.

If I manage to get the old C: drive visible again, at the same time, which one will the system call C:?

 

[RealBeast]

Whichever it boots from will probably be C. Unfortunately, Windows does a poor job of recognizing hot plugged drives on the SATA controller, but assuming that you use either AHCI or RAID SATA mode, you can try attaching one of the drives after start up.

You also might want to try HOTSWAP, I use it to swap drives and it does a better job than Windows itself.