SSD suddenly wont boot windows. Another weirdness happens when disconnecting secondary HDD.

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Hello, as I was looking forward to windows 10, I thought to myself I could also upgrade my PC, so I bought an SSD (specifically OCZ Vector Series 256GB). I plugged the SSD in along with my secondary HDD (which I only use as a storage, it never had an OS installed) and installed the win 10 on my SSD with no problems. Everything went fine for little over a week.

It always booted normally after the motherboard logo shows up, however this time, only a blinking horizontal line in the top left corner showed up. I tried to repair the system with my Win 10 DVD, but none of the solution worked (the programs ususally said that "there is no problem on the bootable drive"). Even weirder thing happened when I unplugged my secondary HDD, during booting it said "Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key", so I plugged the secondary HDD back adn the horizontal line showed up again.

I thought to myself, that there might be some incompatibilities with my motherboard and win 10 or something, so I formatted the SSD and installed win 7 on it. All went well for about two weeks, when the exact same problem happend again yesterday (when booting, horizontal line shows up, when booting without secondary HDD, the "Reboot and select proper boot device,..." shows up).

After some googling right now I found, that you should install the OS on the SSD wihout any other drives plugged in, that it cant boot without the other HDD, but it wont boot even with it plugged in, so what could be the problem?
Any help is appreciated!
 
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REseat your HHD/SSD and make sure in the boot priority everywhere that nowhere it says to boot from disk drive, make sure its always booting from the SSD first, look at the boot overide in the bios and make sure its the SSD first followed by the HHD, last should be your disk drive then usb. make sure you also do not have a disk in when booting up your PC. Make sure your ATA cable is properly connected to your HHD and SSD, Recheck those connections,. after all of this is done, if it still does not work, reformat your SSD and install a fresh install of windows onto it, keep it in sata 0 and never move it, this insures it is the master drive, anything after sata 0 will be the slave drive. Look everywhere in that bios for that boot priority...
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You may need to change the boot priority in your bios and change your legacy settings as these were most likely changed when you installed win 10, then win 7. make sure that the ssd boot drive is always in sata 0 with the HHD behind it in sata 1.
 
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Hello, and thanks for the reply! I havent changed the BIOS settings, the first boot option is set to "SATA PM: OCZ-VECTOR". If it helps, "Boot mode selection" is set as "UEFI and Legacy". Then I checked inside the PC and the SSD is indeed plugged in the SATA0 followed by the HDD in SATA1
 
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REseat your HHD/SSD and make sure in the boot priority everywhere that nowhere it says to boot from disk drive, make sure its always booting from the SSD first, look at the boot overide in the bios and make sure its the SSD first followed by the HHD, last should be your disk drive then usb. make sure you also do not have a disk in when booting up your PC. Make sure your ATA cable is properly connected to your HHD and SSD, Recheck those connections,. after all of this is done, if it still does not work, reformat your SSD and install a fresh install of windows onto it, keep it in sata 0 and never move it, this insures it is the master drive, anything after sata 0 will be the slave drive. Look everywhere in that bios for that boot priority and anything to do with the boot to ensure that its set to legacy only, and to boot from the SSD first. A big thing aswell is make SURE that the SSD is labeled as C:, the particular problem your having can be cause by the pc trying to boot from the ssd but the partition containing the windows files is not active so its trying to boot from an empty area on the drive. after a reformat you should be okay to boot from the SSD, also I would run a virus scan, just incase.
 
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REseat your HHD/SSD and make sure in the boot priority everywhere that nowhere it says to boot from disk drive, make sure its always booting from the SSD first, look at the boot overide in the bios and make sure its the SSD first followed by the HHD, last should be your disk drive then usb. make sure you also do not have a disk in when booting up your PC. Make sure your ATA cable is properly connected to your HHD and SSD, Recheck those connections,. after all of this is done, if it still does not work, reformat your SSD and install a fresh install of windows onto it, keep it in sata 0 and never move it, this insures it is the master drive, anything after sata 0 will be the slave drive. Look everywhere in that bios for that boot priority and anything to do with the boot to ensure that its set to legacy only, and to boot from the SSD first. A big thing aswell is make SURE that the SSD is labeled as C:, the particular problem your having can be cause by the pc trying to boot from the ssd but the partition containing the windows files is not active so its trying to boot from an empty area on the drive. after a reformat you should be okay to boot from the SSD, also I would run a virus scan, just incase.
 
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Ok, I tried those things, but it still wont boot, so I will probably reformat the SSD and install win 10. Would legacy settings be better for win 10 as well?
Also I have read (in this thread) that I should have any other HDDs disconnected while installing the system on an SSD, or else it installs MBR files to the secondary HDD. But if I install the OS on the SSD while the other HDD is disconnected, and then plug the other HDD in, wouldnt the MBR files conflict from across those two drives? Do I have to wipe the entire HDD as well?
 
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No because with SATA it eliminates the need to pick a master and a slave, whichever is in sata 0 is considered the master, there should be no conflicting between the two drives especially if one does not have any system files on it. I would install it with the HHD disconnected, to do so just start your PC put the disk in, and choose to boot from the disk drive, that will automatically give you the option to reformat.
 
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I will reinstall the system, without the secondary HDD connected, then. Hopefully the problem wont appear in another week or so again :D. Thank you for your time and your help.
 
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no problem, I really hope it works out for you, just make sure not to boot from the other drive.
 
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