Reboots at Windows logo and goes to Startup Repair with new SSD

[vieekk]

I installed a new SSD disk the other day, enabled AHCI and changed boot order so that the SSD was first and then booted with my Windows 7 DVD where I deleted the previous Windows installation that was on my regular HDD so that it became an unformatted drive. Then I installed Windows onto the SSD.

Now, sometimes when I boot my computer it reboots on the Windows logo only to go to recommend Startup Repair, but it works when I choose to boot normally this second time. Don't tell me I have to reinstall Windows just because I didn't unplug my two other (unformatted) drives when installing on the SSD?

 

[Erick Aguilar]

When you were performing the clean installation it would have been a better idea to format the other two hard drives that contained a windows installation.

My opinion is that you should perform a new clean install, and format all the drives that will be in the system permanently before the set up. That is why it's called a clean install.

 

[vieekk]

When you were performing the clean installation it would have been a better idea to format the other two hard drives that contained a windows installation.

My opinion is that you should perform a new clean install, and format all the drives that will be in the system permanently before the set up. That is why it's called a clean install.

But how? As I said, I deleted the partitions on the old drive using the Windows disc. Isn't that clean enough?

 

[Erick Aguilar]

Oh! My bad. I didn't pay attention.
Weird.

None of your HD's are in a RAID array correct? have you attempted the startup repair to see what happens then?

 

[vieekk]

Oh! My bad. I didn't pay attention.
Weird.

None of your HD's are in a RAID array correct? have you attempted the startup repair to see what happens then?

Just to be on the safe side. I was on this dialog:

Just a screenshot from Google, not my setup.

There I deleted the three partitions from my old 1 TB drive so that they became one unallocated space. So all in all I had three unallocated drives there: my 250 GB SSD, my old 1 TB HDD and a new 1 TB HDD which I installed together with the SSD. I selected the SSD as the installation target and formatted the two other HDD's a while later in Windows. Nothing wrong there?

I also installed some memory while putting in the new disks, but I remembered to enable XMP when enabling ACHI in BIOS.

Now, RAID: I haven't configured the HDD's to be in a RAID array, but I don't know how to check on that. This is done via BIOS?

I havent tried the repair yet, it just seems strange that it actually boots the second time around.

 

[Erick Aguilar]

Yeah, that does seem like an interesting issue. If it's bugged and it always maintain the behaviour of working after teh second boot, I would recommend you re install windows with only the SSD, all the ram you will be using, and GPU if you don't have integrated graphics.

 

[DeaconFrost]

Instead of doing a reinstall, unplug the two HDDs and then repair the install on the SSD. Leave the two HDDs disconnected, and see if you can get the issue to reappear. If not, you should be good to go. If so, then it may be a bad SSD.

 

[Layback Bear]

When installing Windows 7 on a hard drive or a SSD disconnect all other hard drives and SSD's. Then do your install.
Here is a little something to read through.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

 

[vieekk]

Yeah, that does seem like an interesting issue. If it's bugged and it always maintain the behaviour of working after teh second boot, I would recommend you re install windows with only the SSD, all the ram you will be using, and GPU if you don't have integrated graphics.

Hm, okay. I think it's weird that you have to do that.

Instead of doing a reinstall, unplug the two HDDs and then repair the install on the SSD. Leave the two HDDs disconnected, and see if you can get the issue to reappear. If not, you should be good to go. If so, then it may be a bad SSD.

I will try that. Do you mean the Startup Repair that shows by itself or the one via the Windows disc or maybe they're the same thing?

When installing Windows 7 on a hard drive or a SSD disconnect all other hard drives and SSD's. Then do your install.
Here is a little something to read through.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

Thank you, but I hope it's not going to get to that, now that I've installed and set up everything.

 

[DeaconFrost]

I will try that. Do you mean the Startup Repair that shows by itself or the one via the Windows disc or maybe they're the same thing?

I believe they lead you to the same place, but you'll want to have your disc handy anyway for the process. This way, if the system is just repaired to boot all the time, you won't need to do a clean install or anything like that. It might save you some time...and then you can always revert to the clean install if this doesn't help.

 

[vieekk]

I will try that. Do you mean the Startup Repair that shows by itself or the one via the Windows disc or maybe they're the same thing?

I believe they lead you to the same place, but you'll want to have your disc handy anyway for the process. This way, if the system is just repaired to boot all the time, you won't need to do a clean install or anything like that. It might save you some time...and then you can always revert to the clean install if this doesn't help.

I've been evaluating the problem for some weeks now. At first I thought the repair only showed when my external drive was powered on during boot, but no. It's still happening, I just did a start repair, but the thing only shows about once a week and I boot my computer at least one time per day. That's strange, that it's so irregular.

I haven't tried pulling out the cables to the other drives and only having the SSD in because of it happening so seldom. Can I really pull out the other drives during the repair?

 

[VistaKing]

On the SSD did you update the firmware ?

Unplug the two 1TB drives so only the SSD is plugged in and restart the Startup Repair . If you get an error message can you copy and paste the entire message ( text from the top to bottom )

 

[vieekk]

On the SSD did you update the firmware ?

Unplug the two 1TB drives so only the SSD is plugged in and restart the Startup Repair . If you get an error message can you copy and paste the entire message ( text from the top to bottom )

Yes, I did update the firmware using Samsung Magician 4.0. I will try unplugging tomorrow, just the power cables, right?