iobilly Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I have a samsung NP530, it has a 16GB caching drive, which unfortunately I could not remove. anyway, I installed windows 7 onto the newly installed SSD, but if I remove the USB installer (which I had used Rufus to make), it will refuse to boot, saying BOOTMGR cannot be found. Only when the USB key is in it will boot. I tried to format the 16GB caching drive as drive R and the SSD as drive C, but sitll the same. Even worse when I run startup repair it will say windows is in drive D... Help, im so confused regarding this already... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 It sounds like your install put the BCD onto the USB key. I'm not sure if using an answer file would be enough to stop it from happening. Do you have a USB DVD drive you could install from instead? Also, are you still going to want to use the SSD for caching? I bet your SATA mode is set to RAID in the BIOS (might be related) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iobilly Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 yes the bcd was installed in the usb key. no I wont need the caching anymore. but its a PIA to remove the Half mini pci card.. I was hoping there was a way around it.. there is no option in the BIOS for that unfortunately.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 There are a few posts like this one (XP unfortunately), I don't know if this can lead you to a solution.I don't know Rufus. There must be a way to install without that problem (I mean it might be faster to reinstall from scratch than to search for a solution). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 There are seemingly TWO different issues here.#1 is the place where the BOOTMGR and \boot\BCD reside.#2 is drive letter assigned to the system volume. #1 is easy to fix.Boot the Windows 7 with the USB stick connected.Check if you have a file BOOTMGR in root of the internal disk volume (you may need ot set the Explorer to show hidden and system files)Copy the file BOOTMGR from the root of the USB stick volume to the root of the internal disk volume. Check if you have in root of the internal disk volume a folder \boot\ and in it a file \BCDIf not:Create the \boot\ folder on that volume.Open Registry editor and check if you have a BCD000001 hive mounted.Select it and export it (as hive, NOT as .reg) to <driveletter of the volume on internal disk>:\boot\BCD. Open disk management (or use diskpart) and make sure that the volume on internal disk is Active. Try rebooting without the USB connected. What happens? Then we may talk on how to fix (if possible) the issue #2. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdob Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Only when the USB key is in it will boot. I tried to format the 16GB caching drive as drive R and the SSD as drive C, but sitll the same copy boot files to c: or r:http://technet.microsoft.com/library/gg577238.aspx Eitherbcdboot c:\windows /s r:Orbcdboot c:\windows /s c: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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