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Hi,
I have two hard drives connected to my newly assembled computer. One SSD for boot and windows and Another 1TB Hard Drive that contains data only.

Every now and then when I start up my computer My SSD with windows 8 on it doesn't get detected. and windows doesn't boot. I turn off the computer remove the sata cable connection to the SSD and put it back in and then it boots normaly.

Initialy i assumed it was a problem with the sata cable so I tried it with two other working cables and even tried connecting it in different sata ports on the mother board. The same problem.

Is there anything I should be checking?
 
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I've had a similar problem. It was something to do with the way I installed windows, as it creates annoying little partions all over your disks. Simply configuring your boot priorities in BIOS may solve the problem.

Disconnect your HHD from the Motherboard and boot like that. It may request that you insert your windows CD or repair windows. Once you've done that and booted into windows successfully, shut down and reconnect your HDD. Boot into windows and then open disk management. Then look for a tiny partition on your HDD, from memory they are about 100MB. Delete that partition and it should solve your problem.

In the future, only have your OS drive connected to the motherboard when you install or repair windows. Since doing that, I've not had the problem.
 
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I have the 100MB UEFI partition in disk management. Should I delete it?
Also I get a message on my windows 8 desktop that says SecureBoot is not configured correctly.
 
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I can't answer your question about Windows 8 as I have never used it, but do not delete your 100MB Partition. If you have done what I said before and disconnected the HDD and are able to boot into windows with just the SSD, then you shouldn't have any more trouble. At that point you should be able to delete the 100MB partition on your HDD, as everything you require to run windows is on your SSD.

Edit: Just did a google search, SecureBoot sounds like more of an annoyance in the theme of Apple crap than anything else, personally I would follow the link on this page to remove the notification but there is also a link to configure it correctly if you'd rather. It seems as if it is designed to only allow software to run that has some sort of certificate - someone else may be to explain that in more detail or discredit my opinion... In Windows 7 you can manually allow or block any software from launching on boot through boot options in MSCONFIG, including services and windows components...

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/secure-boot-watermark
 
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Tried loading with only the SSD. I'm facing the same problem. I also checked my HDD for the 100MB partition and there isn't Any.

Could this probably be a hardware issue then? As it seems to work ok after I remove the sata cable to the SSD and then connect it back. Thing is it is not practical to keep doing this every now and then.

I do intend to eventualy get linux installed on my HDD and then dual boot but I would like to get windows 8 working properly first.

I'll try to sort out the SecureBoot problem and then see if it gets fixed.
 
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SecureBoot stops "unauthorized software" from running when you boot. Your problem seems to be that you cannot boot in the first place.

It's very peculiar that removing the SATA cable has any effect at all. In your BIOS boot priorities, have you disabled the HDD entirely? You should have something like 1st = cd/dvd, 2nd = USB, 3rd = SSD. Anything beyond the SSD can be disabled.

Did you follow the above instructions correctly? Windows can certainly run on a system with only a single HDD/SSD, so you should be able to have the entire windows installation on one physical disk. One that installation is complete, you should be able to freely add and remove additional hard drives without spreading the windows installation across any of them. The only time that I have had similar problems to yours is when I have had additional HDD's connected to the motherboard at the time of installation. If you remove all other drives, windows should be able to repair in a way that enables the system to run off one disk.
 
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Sometimes it boots and sometimes it doesn't.

When it doesn't boot. The SSD is not even detected in the bios. After I reconnect the SATA cable to the SSD it gets detected and boots normally.

I have changed 3 SATA cables and also changed the ports on the motherboard.

 
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Well I found out the problem. My boot priority was set to boot USB devices first. Normally this would be ok, but I'm using a wireless USB keyboard and mouse and this was causing the errors.
Everything works fine now.
 
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