Win 7, 64, Home Premium, 120GB SSD SATA3 system disk (C), 3TB Hitachi SATA3 data drive (E,F,G,H)
My config when this problem started was the above. To make a long story short (took me a while to figure all this out), the 3TB data drive started going bad -- started getting bsods, event 11's, etc. I went ahead and did the rma for the replacement 3tb data drive and continued to use the system. Booted just fine for a while and then would take forever to boot into windows and then finally a week ago wouldn't boot at all after I tried hooking it up to a SATA2 port to trouble shoot. When I hooked it back up to a sata3 port it wouldn't boot at all.
Since then I have received the replacement 3TB drive and installed a fresh win7 on it and am using it as a system drive to further trouble shoot the problem with the SSD system drive. I did finally figure out that if I have the old bad 3TB drive in the system hooked up to sata 3 port, the new system drive (3tb for testing) may or may not boot at all and if it does it takes forever. Once I removed the bad data drive from the machine, no problems booting to my test 3TB win 7 drive. It just won't boot from the ssd drive. I see it in bios and can access via explorer. I can also access the bad 3tb drive via usb connection ok with no effect on the system. It does have a bad partition.
I have run BurnIn and other diagnostics on all components including the ssd drive that it will not boot from with absolutely no problems (wasn't sure whether i had a bad controller or disk). fyi, the win 7 installation on the ssd drive has a System Reserve and a full win 7 partition. I do have Ghost backups that I can try to restore to the 2 ssd partitions, but I thought someone might have another suggestion. I am mystified as to how the failing data drive caused windows to become corrupted if indeed it is corrupted.
Thanks for your help -- David
My config when this problem started was the above. To make a long story short (took me a while to figure all this out), the 3TB data drive started going bad -- started getting bsods, event 11's, etc. I went ahead and did the rma for the replacement 3tb data drive and continued to use the system. Booted just fine for a while and then would take forever to boot into windows and then finally a week ago wouldn't boot at all after I tried hooking it up to a SATA2 port to trouble shoot. When I hooked it back up to a sata3 port it wouldn't boot at all.
Since then I have received the replacement 3TB drive and installed a fresh win7 on it and am using it as a system drive to further trouble shoot the problem with the SSD system drive. I did finally figure out that if I have the old bad 3TB drive in the system hooked up to sata 3 port, the new system drive (3tb for testing) may or may not boot at all and if it does it takes forever. Once I removed the bad data drive from the machine, no problems booting to my test 3TB win 7 drive. It just won't boot from the ssd drive. I see it in bios and can access via explorer. I can also access the bad 3tb drive via usb connection ok with no effect on the system. It does have a bad partition.
I have run BurnIn and other diagnostics on all components including the ssd drive that it will not boot from with absolutely no problems (wasn't sure whether i had a bad controller or disk). fyi, the win 7 installation on the ssd drive has a System Reserve and a full win 7 partition. I do have Ghost backups that I can try to restore to the 2 ssd partitions, but I thought someone might have another suggestion. I am mystified as to how the failing data drive caused windows to become corrupted if indeed it is corrupted.
Thanks for your help -- David
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