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    MSI GT683DXR wont boot after SSD Win7 install (boot priority changed?)

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Baconstrip, Feb 20, 2012.

  1. Baconstrip

    Baconstrip Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello all,

    I have a GT683DXR and I just installed Win7 using the recovery partition on a new Crucial 128GB SSD. I used a Win7 CD to delete the partitions and create the primary partition on the SSD (also renamed the SSD partition to OS_Install).

    So Win7 installed perfectly fine, and I even utilized the laptop for quite some time. Problem is, I booted up this morning and got an error screen. No matter what I try, I cannot even access the BIOS, recovery, or boot from a CD. It automatically goes to this screen no matter what happens:

    The only thing we havent tried yet is taking out the SSD, but regardless I have no idea how this would have happened. Theres no way to access anything other than this screen.

    Has anyone encountered this? Im going to try taking the SSD out, but now I am afraid to use the SSD as the boot device even though it worked perfectly after its initial install.

    THANKS!
     
    Baconstrip, Feb 20, 2012
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  2. Captain Razer

    Captain Razer Notebook Evangelist

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    that laptop came with raid 0 out of the box?

    if yes, then:

    1) you CAN'T do the data recovery!

    2) you need to turn the mirror into AHCI in the bios before doing a clean install to SSD!
     
    Captain Razer, Feb 20, 2012
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  3. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    Windows can sometimes get confused. It creates a boot partition and that drive can sometimes be another one. If that drive is then removed windows wont boot.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Feb 20, 2012
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    sparker Notebook Geek

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    Did you do what it said?
     
    sparker, Feb 20, 2012
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  5. Baconstrip

    Baconstrip Notebook Enthusiast

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    I figured out the problem.

    The issue was that the computer was trying to boot out of hibernation. The 100MB partition was still on the 750gb HD (this version of the laptop wasnt a RAID version, just had 1 750gb HD)

    So we took out the hard drive and booted only with the SSD, worked fine. Put the HD back in, booted fine (from complete shutdown). But then we tried to boot out of hibernate, same deal.

    The problem was just the 100 MB partition that Win7 creates, which I assume is for hibernation purposes. Switched the 100MB partition to a partition on the SSD, deleted the 100 MB partition on the HD, and it works totally fine.

    Just an FYI if anyone runs into this problem at a later date :)
     
    Baconstrip, Feb 20, 2012
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  6. salada2k

    salada2k Notebook Consultant

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    What did you use to change the 100MB partition? Might help someone else in having the same problem. bcdboot seems to work pretty well for example.
     
    salada2k, Feb 22, 2012
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