Add SSD as storage causing windows boot fail

monkwan

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Hello,

I've had problems with my Patriot 32GB PS-100 SSD running as the windows boot drive in the past.
Every 30 seconds or minute or so, it would lock up for a few seconds.

I gave up and just installed windows on a normal sata drive.


Just today I wanted to plug in the SSD as an additional storage drive.

I plugged it in, set my regular SATA as the primary boot disk, and I'm getting a "operating system is missing" error on startup.

I unplug the SSD, restart, and it boots fine.



Somehow just attaching this SSD as an additional storage drive is causing my main windows drive to fail.
 

monkwan

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That's the first thing I did.
By default BIOS set the SSD as the 1st boot priority, but I set it back to the HD.

I just plugged in the SSD with windows running and it detected it and seems to be working fine now. but after a reboot...I'm guessing I'll get the error again.