SSD System Drive No Longer Booting After Attaching External Toaster

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  1. Posts : 105
    Windows 7 64bit
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    SSD System Drive No Longer Booting After Attaching External Toaster


    I have an OCZ Vertex as my system drive. However I wanted to expand my storage so I purchased a Thermaltake BlacX toaster and a Toshiba PH3300U 3TB drive for external storage.

    I plugged them all in, as I've done a billion times in my career, and now my 64bit Win 7 machine will not boot my system drive.

    I set it as the first device to boot, even took it and the toaster to another machine and it read the drive perfectly.

    I tried a bootrec.exe /fixmbr and it did nothing.

    Removing all drives except the system drive doesn't even let it boot, I simply get the "Reboot and select proper boot device" message.

    Terribly frustrating...

    Any ideas?
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  2. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #2

    What is a Thermaltake BlacX toaster ?

    Run through these USB steps.
    USB Driver - General Fix for Problems
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  3. Posts : 105
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Britton30 said:
    What is a Thermaltake BlacX toaster ?

    Run through these USB steps.
    USB Driver - General Fix for Problems
    Thermaltake BlacX toaster - Bing
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  4. Posts : 105
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #4

    I ran through those USB steps, but none of it was really relative to the issue.

    My BIOS sees my system drive perfectly, allows me to change primary boot devices and such.

    But when I boot, even with all my other drives unpluged and only the system drive connected I still get the error.
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  5. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #5

    Oh, docking station, never heard it called a toaster.
    did you recheck the OS drive's cables for looseness? Have you ever had Linux on the drive?
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  6. Posts : 105
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Never had Linux on it, in fact it's relatively new. 6 months perhaps.

    I've checked the cables in the process of removing the other drives. I disconnected every single drive, including the system drive and reinserting it into the motherboard. I've even tried a brand new sata cable to ensure it wasn't a bad cable.

    Very strange.
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  7. Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
       #7

    Are you able to boot at all? If so, please follow suggestions here so we can look at the partition details:

    Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
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  8. Posts : 24,479
    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
       #8

    Make sure you reconnected the OS drive to the SATA1 port, as shown.

    SSD System Drive No Longer Booting After Attaching External Toaster-89927_2245_draft.png
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  9. Posts : 105
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #9

    No, it doesn't boot at all.

    In fact, if I boot to my Windows disc, and attempt to select "Repair" so that I can then do a fixmbr or somesuch, the OS isn't even listed.
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  10. Posts : 105
    Windows 7 64bit
    Thread Starter
       #10

    Yes, :) It's SATA1.
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