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Raid is a different storage structure than what your original drive was using, ACHI, most likely.

 

Because it is a different storage structure, windows is unable to find the boot drive because it does not have the raid drivers.

 

When you change to Raid, you will need to reinstall windows and install the raid drivers during the install to be able to boot into windows.

 

if you switch back to achi, you should be able to boot into windows.

 

I never change from AHCI to Raid. I planned to, but didn't ever get that far lol.

But, I did figure it out. It was a 1TB internal hard drive I was going to be replacing with the SSD's. I had never plugged it in, and Windows must have needed that drive as well in order to boot. 

For reference: Original setup was a 128gb SSD as my boot drive, 1TB internal as data. New setup was 128gb SSD as boot, 2x256GB SSD's (to be used as data). Plugging in the original 1TB internal allowed me to boot. Thanks all.

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So I bought a Corsair 750D and 2x Samsung 840 EVO's today, changed all my existing hardware (including my boot drive, a 128gb Samsung 830 SSD) over to the new case and installed the 2 new SSD's. Upon booting I received the error message in the title. I checked all of my BIOS settings and sata power/data cables and everything seems fine. I unplugged the 2 new SSD's and tried again, and I still get the same error message. I'm not really sure what the problem could be. Any ideas?

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And you installed windows on the new drives right? lol

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is the drive with windows selected as the primary boot drive?

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what operating system?

 

Did you previous have a hard drive attached to your original setup?

 

Are you running raid?

 

here is what I understand of your original and new setup, is this correct?

 

original

1x samsung 830 (boot)

 

New

1x samsung 830 (boot)

2x samsung 840 evo (data?) (raid 0?)

 

So I bought a Corsair 750D and 2x Samsung 840 EVO's today, changed all my existing hardware (including my boot drive, a 128gb Samsung 830 SSD) over to the new case and installed the 2 new SSD's. Upon booting I received the error message in the title. I checked all of my BIOS settings and sata power/data cables and everything seems fine. I unplugged the 2 new SSD's and tried again, and I still get the same error message. I'm not really sure what the problem could be. Any ideas?

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And you installed windows on the new drives right? lol

 

I haven't done anything with the new drives other than plug them in (and then unplugged lol)

 

is the drive with windows selected as the primary boot drive?

 

Yes. 

 

what operating system?

 

Did you previous have a hard drive attached to your original setup?

 

Are you running raid?

 

here is what I understand of your original and new setup, is this correct?

 

original

1x samsung 830 (boot)

 

New

1x samsung 830 (boot)

2x samsung 840 evo (data?) (raid 0?)

Yeah that's exactly right. I hadn't even set up the new drives as RAID 0, though that was my intention. All I did was plug them in and when I got the error upon booting, I removed them thinking they were the problem. I did have a 1TB internal data drive previously, could that be the issue? 

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Raid is a different storage structure than what your original drive was using, ACHI, most likely.

 

Because it is a different storage structure, windows is unable to find the boot drive because it does not have the raid drivers.

 

When you change to Raid, you will need to reinstall windows and install the raid drivers during the install to be able to boot into windows.

 

if you switch back to achi, you should be able to boot into windows.

 
I haven't done anything with the new drives other than plug them in (and then unplugged lol)

 

 

Yes. 
 

Yeah that's exactly right. I hadn't even set up the new drives as RAID 0, though that was my intention. All I did was plug them in and when I got the error upon booting, I removed them thinking they were the problem. I did have a 1TB internal data drive previously, could that be the issue? 

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All I know when ever I have done stuff with my boot drive or reset the cmos and I get that message it's because my os drive isn't selected as the primary boot. 

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 I haven't done anything with the new drives other than plug them in (and then unplugged lol)

....so you don't have an OS on them?

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I haven't done anything with the new drives other than plug them in (and then unplugged lol)

 

 

Yes. 

 

Yeah that's exactly right. I hadn't even set up the new drives as RAID 0, though that was my intention. All I did was plug them in and when I got the error upon booting, I removed them thinking they were the problem. I did have a 1TB internal data drive previously, could that be the issue? 

Its because they don't have an OS on it thats why it gets stuck at this error because it has nothing to boot from. You would need to install the OS to get rid of this error. :)

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Raid is a different storage structure than what your original drive was using, ACHI, most likely.

 

Because it is a different storage structure, windows is unable to find the boot drive because it does not have the raid drivers.

 

When you change to Raid, you will need to reinstall windows and install the raid drivers during the install to be able to boot into windows.

 

if you switch back to achi, you should be able to boot into windows.

 

I never change from AHCI to Raid. I planned to, but didn't ever get that far lol.

But, I did figure it out. It was a 1TB internal hard drive I was going to be replacing with the SSD's. I had never plugged it in, and Windows must have needed that drive as well in order to boot. 

For reference: Original setup was a 128gb SSD as my boot drive, 1TB internal as data. New setup was 128gb SSD as boot, 2x256GB SSD's (to be used as data). Plugging in the original 1TB internal allowed me to boot. Thanks all.

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