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Failure to boot properly
Some background. A few months ago I upgraded my Vista Ultimate to Win 7 32 Ultimate. I had a fair number of problems that got worse over time. Ultimately I was having problems installing or uninstalling programs. I also had issues with the 'Installer' popping up constantly.
I couldn't afford to lose the system, so I installed a second hard drive, disconnected the original hard drive and installed XP. I then upgraded the XP to Win 7 Ultimate. I added all the application programs and everything worked great. This second hard drive was connected to the #4 SATA port. The system booted up fine.
I then reconnected the original hard drive (#0 SATA port). When I booted up I got an error message 'No boot drive' and a list of the four SATA ports. When I go into the boot menu and highlight the newer drive the system boots up and runs fine - I can see and access the old drive (which was renamed F:).
The problem is that I cannot get the system to initially boot to the new drive. I have to do an F12, access the boot menu and manually highlight the drive. I swapped the cables so that the new drive is connected to the #0 port and the older drive is connected to the #4 port. It didn't help. The new drive is at the top of the boot menu list, but I still initially get a boot failure.