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BSOD when adding hard drives to 64-bit version
I can run Windows 7 64-bit just fine with drives C (boot), D (data), and H (DVD). If I add another drive, I can't boot - I get a flash of BSOD followed by a reboot. The BSOD flashes too fast to read, but just long enough to recognize it before it reboots. I have tried three additional drives at the same time and individually with the same results. I can plug the drives in while W7 is running and the drive is recognized and appears. It installed drivers upon the first plugin. But if I restart without changing anything, I get BSOD. I tried moving the DVD from E to H since that is how I had it setup in Vista and that did not change anything. The three drives should show up as E, F, and G. All are connected to the Intel SATA chipset on a Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 motherboard. There are no exclamation markes for the controller in Device Manager. I also tried turing off all autostart functions when new drives are inserted. Note that I am able to plug in a removable SATA drive via USB adapter (drive R) and leave it plugged in through a restart without trouble.
This setup ran fine in Vista 32. My Win7-64 install is on a clean formatted drive. This is the Release version of W7-64 (it was released to OEMs on Oct 12). All Windows 7 updates have been applied through Windows Update.