Hi Everybody,
I have 3 SSD drives in the PC.
1. Win 7 64 bit
2. fresh Win 8 Pro
3. SSD with data only
I also use hot-swappable SATA HDDs (4TB and 2TB) (the PC case has 4 bays for that). They were not present when I installed Win 8.
Everything works fine, I can multiboot without problems but only when no HDD is connected. As soon as I connect any SATA HDD, Windows 7 will not boot because it cannot find winload.exe (0xc000000e). Win 8 can boot with no problems, but it just takes much longer than without the HDDs.
Winload.exe is of course in System32 on Windows 7. It can be found and is working when the HDDs are disconnected.
I suspect something happens to the drive letters when the additional HDDs are plugged in.
I tried the repair option in Easy BCD, deleted the Windows 7 entry and added it again. No help.
Windows 7 just refuses to boot when the HDDs are present. Does anybody have an idea how to fix it?
Please help.
Cheers
Tom
I have 3 SSD drives in the PC.
1. Win 7 64 bit
2. fresh Win 8 Pro
3. SSD with data only
I also use hot-swappable SATA HDDs (4TB and 2TB) (the PC case has 4 bays for that). They were not present when I installed Win 8.
Everything works fine, I can multiboot without problems but only when no HDD is connected. As soon as I connect any SATA HDD, Windows 7 will not boot because it cannot find winload.exe (0xc000000e). Win 8 can boot with no problems, but it just takes much longer than without the HDDs.
Winload.exe is of course in System32 on Windows 7. It can be found and is working when the HDDs are disconnected.
I suspect something happens to the drive letters when the additional HDDs are plugged in.
I tried the repair option in Easy BCD, deleted the Windows 7 entry and added it again. No help.
Windows 7 just refuses to boot when the HDDs are present. Does anybody have an idea how to fix it?
Please help.
Cheers
Tom