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Win 7 & any other OS Problem booting
Or no OS too.
On one main board Asus x79 Deluxe
All drives are in bays and there are no internal drives.
Win 7 loaded to one hard drive
Ubuntu on a second HD
A blank formatted HD for a third
Only one HD in the bays at a time
Boot to Win 7 Everything is fine
Shut down
Pull the Win 7 HD
Install either of the other HDs
Boot to either of the other HDs
result:
BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH with error message telling me that it's probably a hardware problem and to insert my OS disk for repair.
Once windows loads from the OS disk and I select repair the fix is almost instantaneous.
Repeat the sequence above and the same black screen of death appears.
What is happening?
Is Win 7 writing something to my Mainboard? Sure seems like it. And whatever is written to the main board has some thing about the MBR of the Win 7 disk and when any other disk is inserted as the only (Primary/Master) drive then that drive's MBR contaminates the prior writing and confuses things?