W7 won't boot without dvd drive connected


  1. dosucol
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    W7 won't boot without dvd drive connected


    This is a bizarre one.

    I have to use my sata dvd drive in another pc ,so i disconnected it,and all i'm left with now are my 2 sata hard disks,(the boot disk and one for media and such).But now my pc will just not boot .So i reconnected the dvd drive again and voila ,normal booting .

    I had a check in the bios,to see what was selected as the boot device and the dvd sata drive is/was never set as the first boot device,always the sata hd.

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  3. theog
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    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    Try pluging your drives in this order.

    (HD 1) Disk0 into Sata1
    (HD 2) Disk1 into Sata2
    (DVD 1) Disk0 into Sata3

    Can you post your specs.

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  4. dosucol
    Posts : 29
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    Finally fixed the problem.

    I don't know if this is what other motherboard users have to do,but with this biostar A740G M2+ ,i had to load the default bios settings,(with the dvd drive disconnected)then change them back to what i had set them to before the Os boot failure

    Error details were-"secondary slave drive ATAPI incompatible ".

    Still a strange one,as the bios settings are now set back to exactly what they were ?
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