[WIN7] Win7 won't boot

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CmmTch join:2002-08-10 High Ridge, MO Reviews: ·AT&T Southwest	[WIN7] Win7 won't boot Need some help with not being able to boot into Win7. I have upgraded my box with a new Mobo, CPU, RAM, SSD, and WIN7 Home Premium Upgrade. The Mobo, CPU and RAM where in Nov last year. Last week I installed a new SSD intending to put Win7 on it and then delete XP from the old HD and use it for storage when 7 was up. My existing OS is XP Pro SP3, it works fine and boots like it always has. When I try to boot from the new SSD, after the Mobo splash screen with choices (Del-setup, f8-startup, etc...) it goes to a screen with S.M.A.R.T info and shows two images, 01 and 02, neither one has a name just lines of letters and numbers, those are identical and below that which which one to boot into. That field has 1 in it, the keyboard has no effect when you press any keys. Then that screen disappears, if I have chosen the SSD in startup options it goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner. Buttons on the keyboard don't do anything on that screen either. The upgrade version of 7 is designed to work with XP and Vista, I did a clean install on the SSD (required for XP), my XP installation is on the old HD so it let me install it. I have been able to get into win7 several times by booting with the install disc in the CD-ROM but can't boot directly into it from the SSD. Here are things I have tried: Reinstalling Win7 several times, one time I took out the old HD and put XP on the SSD then ran the Win7 upgrade. Changed boot order numerous times in the BIOS. Repaired startup from Win7 tonight. Last night when I finally got into it from the CD a message came up "Problem detected with startup" I chose to fix it. Accessed the Windows Recovery Environment tonight and used bootrec, ran /FixMbr, /FixBoot, /RebuildBcd, and before I ran any of those /ScanOs showed 0 installations compatible with Vista or Win7. Nothing has changed, still won't boot from the SSD I will post information, just not sure what might be needed, TIA for reading this, appreciate any responses with some ideas of what to try next. Sorry for the very long post
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Zupe Premium,MVM join:2001-11-29 New York, NY 2 edits	If you boot into the XP installation, is the SSD visible and working correctly, all files available, etc.? Would booting from the Windows 7 CD let you do a repair of the 7 installation or does it not even see it? I went through my own SSD installation headache this past weekend, but in my case, it was the Bootmgr being on the wrong drive and not having a Windows 7 cd, just a Dell repair disk. Edit Ignore me - I missed the part about you being able to get into 7 if you boot from the cd. It sounds like possibly it has multiple installations showing up, and won't let you choose the good installation because the keyboard is non-responsive? I'm not sure if it would help, but if you boot into the 7 install from the cd, can you edit the boot list so that it chooses the other option? Also, you said you tried installing XP directly on the SSD at one point with the other drive removed. Did the system boot into XP correctly at that time?
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CmmTch join:2002-08-10 High Ridge, MO Reviews: ·AT&T Southwest	Thanks for the reply Zupe , I don't remember if I could boot to XP on the new drive, after it installed I'm pretty sure I immediately put the Win7 install cd in to install it. That was on Sunday and I've been working on it on and off since Friday night and have done many different things, so I can't say for sure whether I could or not. I have repaired win7 several times with no change, I feel something is missing for the SSD. I don't believe there is a driver needed, I thought they were like USB flash drives, plug it in and away you go. Device manager shows it the same as the old HD, both show partition type as MBR. I used disk managment to format it (NTFS) I was going to try deleting the partition and using the win7 install cd to format it but I don't know if it would see an unformated/unpartitioned drive. I have been up in Win7 setting things up, downloaded 43 Megs of updates, used Easy Transfer and have those files on the win7 install. It works great once I manage to get into it, but restarting/booting is the problem. Some more information, the old HD is an IDE, the new SSD is SATA. My CD/DVD drives are also IDE. In the BIOS the SSD is also set IDE, the other choice is AHCI. I haven't tried changing the SSD to AHCI to see what happens. I'm googling it now, will post this and see if I get any other replies.
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Zupe Premium,MVM join:2001-11-29 New York, NY	reply to CmmTch What drive/partition shows as boot/active in Disk Management from within windows? Here are a couple of threads with some possible fixes, though it seems to vary quite a bit as to what worked for each person: »social.technet.microsoft.com/For···1d519c3a »social.technet.microsoft.com/For···5dcb0bcd »social.technet.microsoft.com/For···a44b0180 -- Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: I think so, Brain, but "Snowball for Windows"?
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