Windows 7 Ultimate Installer Problem with Bootmgr

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RightNyer

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I'm having a problem that is driving me up the wall. I've tried installing clean now 5 times, and it does the same thing every time. I have three drives, two SSDs in Raid 0 (striped) as the first drive, and a 2 TB data drive as the second drive. Both drives are completely wiped and empty with clean partitions. No matter what I do, the Windows installer insists on putting the Boot files on the second drive, which I don't want for reasons too complicated to get into here. I don't understand why when I install to C: (the Raid array) it doesn't put Windows and all the boot files on it. I've tried wiping the drives with diskpart/clean, multiple times and reinstalling. Nothing works. Any ideas? Thanks much.
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
Temporarily unplug the HDD until Windows installation is complete - reconnect the HDD once installation is finished. This issue affects almost every installation - you aren't alone :-)
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Golden Mk. I.4
OS
Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
CPU
Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz O/C'ed to 4.0GHz
Motherboard
Gigabyte P55A-UD3R Rev.1. Award BIOS F13
Memory
16GB Corsair Vengance DDR3 @ 661 MHz Dual Channel (9-9-9-24)
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA NVidia GTX 560 1024MB
Sound Card
Realtek Integrated
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual Samsung SyncMaster 2494HS
Screen Resolution
1920*1080 and 1920*1080
Hard Drives
1*Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD;
1*OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SSD;
2*Samsung F3 SpinPoint 1TB in RAID0;
1*Samsung F1 SpinPoint 1TB;
2*Western Digital 1TB External USB 3.0
1*Western Digital 500GB External USB 3.0
1*Seagate 500GB External USB 2.0
PSU
Thermaltake ToughPower QFan 750W
Case
Thermaltake Element S VK60001W2Z
Cooling
Corsair H60 Water Cooling, 2*230mm and 2*80mm case fans
Keyboard
Logitech G110
Mouse
Logitech MX518
May I ask why you are installing to RAID0 which confers no advantages and if one fails causes you to lose all of your data on both? Win7 doesn't much like RAID as we see nothing but problems here. I would unRAID the drives and install to only one plugged in alone.

Otherwise as Colin says you need to unplug the HD during install, or predefine an Active partition for install from Step 2 of SSD - HDD Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
 
Thanks Golden. I can try that later, but is there no way besides doing that? Gregrocker, it seems to improve responsiveness of the operating system (all my data is stored on the second drive so I'm not worried about losing data), but you really don't think there's any advantage?

Anyway, I tried using diskpart, clean, creating a new partition, and setting it active and it still doesn't work. Do I need to mark the second drive's partition inactive?
 

My Computer

Computer type
PC/Desktop
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.
Why would the data HD's partition be marked Active? Only the OS boot partition should be Active.

So unplug the second HD which is always the best choice. If this is a laptop where you can't easily do that disable HD in BIOS setup, or make one large Logical partition on it which cannot have boot files written to it.
 
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