Win7 has inconsistant boot issues partition errors

[Funky]

Hi folks
I just put in a new ICYDock   5.25" hot swap Drive Caddy  for 2.5 and 3.5 SSD or Hard Drive.
I'm running windows 7 64

Mainboard is p9x79 deluxe
i73820
SSD samsung 256 gig (Op system) Drive
Raptor SATA11 150 Gig (disk image) drive

Problem:
When I start my computer it keeps saying there is no boot device.
Thing that makes this strange is that If I put the system repair disk in DVD drive and do a fix.
I reboot and it still shows up as no boot device. I then put the disk image  (on HD disk) in and
system repair disk in. 
It boots from my SSD no problem. I can then run everything perfectly.
The Sistem image HD (Raptor SATA11)  is in the same drive caddy as the Samsung SSD SATA111 with the op sys on it.
 Both SATA cables from the Drive caddy got to the internal SATA ports. one to the SATA2 the other SATA3
Any Help would be appricated
TIA 


 

[Funky]

Sorry folks
I'm just adding on to my first post.
I can't find a place to edit it. so here I go.

I read that if i could change my boot.ini
so I will boot straight from the C: drive not including the image drive
It should work ok. I don't know this for sure.
could someone suggest the changes I would have to make? 
 

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[Funky]

Well it just started working again  I have no idea why I have done nothing to it.  I shut it down took drives out. like before then booted it.  instead of no boot device found   windows starts like nothing ever happened.

[Geek-9pm]

Your  posts are very interesting.

Here are my personal comments based only on my own experience and nothing theoretical from a textbook.

Drive caddies tend to lower the reliability and/or data speed of a drive system.
You get better performance using direct cable connection.
The more physical connectors you  have, the lower the reliability.

Hope this helps. 

[patio]

Bottom line is having a bootable HDD in either an external enclosure and/or a dock will always produce funky results...
The SSD ultimately should be mounted internally and never see a Dock...

Bill Gates did NOT want any Win OS since Win2K to be bootable from any external device...the reasons are obvious.Not sayin it can't be done but we don't do that here...

Install the SSD properly and your issues will most likely go away.

[Funky]

I do agree with you Geek-9pm any kind of change (additional device)  in connection will cause issues data loss etc.
I have been running my system on two esatas for about a year now. (no problems)
The reason I do this is I like to switch up op systems.
Having a HD drive connected to the computer internally caused problems because
the different op system would put things on my backup drive that would conflict with other systems.
The only way I can think of was to put all drives in external access devices. (beats opening my case every day or so)  i'm really not to concerned about speed.  I do like to work with different op systems though. I have 4 backup drives one for each system.
i swap them out according to what drive I'm using.
I don't need a lot of space since I don't download movies Mp3's etc.
It's a quick simple easy way to use my system. 
Also if you check out the iCY Dock, it is basically an internal drive but you don't have unhook the cables
It's like instead of reaching in and taking the cables off the HD you just have to pull it out. Not like my eSATA drives at all.

Back to the problem:  I found that for some reason Win7 put a MBR on my second drive and without it hooked up it will not boot. So I have to have two drives on in order to boot properly.
I guess it's not a big deal but I'm just interested in a way to fix it.  I'm kinda pickin your brains so to speek. can't seem to find the same issue exactly. Most are because of using two op systems.

sorry about being so long winded.  I won't do it again.