Message on boot "reboot and select proper boot device..."


  1. Superguy2876
    Posts : 3
    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    Message on boot "reboot and select proper boot device..."


    The complete message is "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"



    System:
    Asrock extreme3 gen3 z68 motherboard
    intel i7 2600k
    16gb g.skill ram
    1.5TB WD harddrive
    64GB crucial m4 ssd
    sapphire radeon hd 7970


    Recently re-installed windows using a bootable usb as i have no optical drive
    installed drivers and some software
    Made SSD into a raid cache
    went to reboot computer after some windows updates and now i get the above message.
    Bios sees the hard drives
    using the bootable usb for windows repair shows no installations of windows, and the cmd doesn't show the hard drives,


    Things i have tried:
    Turned the SSD back into a normal drive
    Removed the SSD Entirely
    Used bootable usb for windows repair
    Used the CMD console from repair to try bootrec
    Re-installing windows entirely


    I found that windows repair doesn't recognize the windows installation on the HDD and also does not recognize the HDD itself.


    On trying to re-install widows i was given no option to select a drive to install on, and it would not continue.


    Put linux mint on a flash drive, It recognized the HDD but gave the error "Unable to mount 1.5 TB Volume - Adding read ACL for uid 999 to `/media/mint' failed: Operation not supported"
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  3. gregrocker
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    Win7 doesn't much like RAID as we only see problems with it here. Is your mobo configured to run a SSD cache with RAID?

    I would unplug all other HD's besides the SSD, reset BIOS to defaults, set SATA controller to AHCI, do a Clean Install Windows 7.

    If it fails try wiping the HD first with Diskpart Clean Command and then define an Active partition as shown in Step 2 of SSD - HDD Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
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