Bios won't boot Cd or ssd but they are listed in boot list. Not a new build.

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Stevinatorx

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Asus z97-a based pc froze and upon reboot will not load windows 7, will not load windows 7 disk, no error, just goes straight to bios even if I override the boot priority for the Cd drive or ssd. Bios recognizes the hdd, and the Cd drive. Only things Plugged into the mobo are monitor, keyboard, Cd drive, and ssd.
 
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I finally resolved the issue after around 8 hours of troubleshooting, and it all came down to the fact my disc was an incomplete copy of windows, and that a corrupt hard drive contained a portion of the operating system involved with boot up, so when I thought I couldn't boot from my SSD, it was because the corrupt HDD handled the boot up, and when I couldn't boot from disc, it was because my disc wasn't bootable. I made a windows 7 bootable usb and that did the trick to fresh install. Word to the wise: don't install windows 7 while there is a second hard drive connected, it may use it even if you don't tell it to.
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Okay so I think part of the problem is rooted in the way windows 7 originally installed itself. I selected my ssd for Install but I've read that if you have a second hard drive hooked up during installation, windows will put some files on it. This makes sense as I'm now getting to the Windows logo when I plug in my mass storage hdd that was present during the windows Install. This particular hdd has started making mechanical clicking noises recently and I think might be starting to poop out. So my thought is the ssd isn't being booted because it's not the full OS. However if I wanted to do a fresh install I'm still stuck with the issue of not being able to boot from a disc.

*update as I type: I left the windows logo up for about 5 minutes and I'm now at a screen that says "checking file system on D: the type of the file system is ntfs. Volume label is HDD 1.

One of the disks needs to be checked for Consistency. You may cancel the disk check but it is strongly recommended that you Continue. Windows will now check the disk"
 
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Stevinatorx

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I finally resolved the issue after around 8 hours of troubleshooting, and it all came down to the fact my disc was an incomplete copy of windows, and that a corrupt hard drive contained a portion of the operating system involved with boot up, so when I thought I couldn't boot from my SSD, it was because the corrupt HDD handled the boot up, and when I couldn't boot from disc, it was because my disc wasn't bootable. I made a windows 7 bootable usb and that did the trick to fresh install. Word to the wise: don't install windows 7 while there is a second hard drive connected, it may use it even if you don't tell it to.
 
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