Adding new hard drive to GA-X58A-UD3R rig - unable to boot now

[wbtczn]

I decided to add a second internal hard drive to use as a backup.  The hard drive is the same as the one I already have in there: Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

Here's the problem -- when we put it all back together, the computer would not boot.  It would do all of the pre-Windows stuff, and then it would just appear to freeze.  It looks like it no longer recognizes my SSD, which is where Windows is installed.

I'm now trying to boot into Windows through the DVD -- doing a Startup Repair.  The Startup Repair has been running for almost an hour now.

Any ideas?  We didn't touch anything around the SSD.   How in the world would the board stop recognizing it?

[Wonderwrench]

It's very possible the boot order changed when you added the new drive. Take a look in the bios and make sure your boot drive is first on the list. Or listed before any other hard drives. I'm old school and still have a floppy drive. My boot order goes like so.
Floppy
CDROM
Hard drive (the OS is installed on)
other devices.

If you have no floppy
CDROM
OS drive

Bill

[wbtczn]

Wow Bill - I have a hard time fathoming anyone with a floppy drive anymore.  Of course, I'm really old school -- where a floppy drive is really a floppy drive...not a hard plastic drive.

Yeah - boot order was one of the first things I checked.  My boot order is:

• Hard disk
• CDROM

I've also taken the new hard disk out of the equation (disconnected the cables).  Every re-boot goes up to 'Verifying DMI Pool Data' and stops.

[wbtczn]

Correction:

• CDROM
• Harddrive - SSD
• Harddrive - Hard drive

[fadsarmy]

You need to check hard disk boot priority.

[Dark Mantis]

I would recommend that you try clearing the CMOS memory and make it find everything again.

Remove the power cable from the mains supply and then press the power switch on the case for a few seconds just to drain any residual energy in the PSU capacitors.

Once done remove the motherboard battery for at least ten minutes before replacing it.
 
Next plug back into the mains supply and boot.
 
You will now need to enter the BIOS by pressing DEL and load Opimised BIOS Defaults.

Make any other changes to the BIOS settings to suit your self and then press F10 to save and exit.