Win7 SSD and SATA HD Issue

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amphoterik

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Hello everyone, I have been researching this and so far cannot find an answer.

I recently bought a new rig: OCZ SSD, ASUS sabertooth p67 mobo, intel i5 processor, and 2 120 gb sata drives.

The problem is that I cannot get the PC to boot to SSD if the satas are plugged in. I have tried installing to the SSD without the SATAs plugged in, and then plugging in the SATAa after everything worked. When I did this the PC wouldn't boot (Just a blank screen: though the SSD still appeared as a boot option in BIOS). I tried changing the SATA ports to raid, AHCI, and IDE and that still didn't help.

Then I tried installing the OS with all drives plugged in. The SSD was in AHCI mode and the 2 SATAs were in raid mode. Everything installed fine, but the system gives me a 0xc000000d error and fails to boot (did not get this error in the above setup).

Any help would be greatly appreciated
 
Are these on the Intel ports? If you did not, turn "hotswap" on for all of those ports in the UEFI/BIOS. Supposedly that causes compatibility problems with some SSDs if left disabled. There were no issues with my Intel X25-M G2 before enabling it, but...
 
Go into the BIOS, change to Advance Mode, go into the Drive config, and at the bottom is a BBS button. Press that and change the order of the drives.

I have the same motherboard and had to change the SSD I tried out to the primary because the motherboard kept picking the SATA drive instead.
 
thank you Ian. You were kind of correct. The SSD was already the primary boot device, but disabling the other two altogether from the boot menu fixed it.

Thank you everyone
 
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