I have two SSD's that with with concatenated space (not raid) will not boot into Windows. A flashing underscore is the only thing appearing when I try to boot into them. I have a x79 Sabertooth Asus motherboard, when I go into EZ bios the only thing there is the Toshiba SSD but when I go into advanced setting the Asus drive and the Toshiba drive show up. This started when I removed the CMOS battery. My Linux drive works fine on this computer.
Would anybody know whats wrong?
can you mount the drives in linux. you could try and see if you just need to enable the drives.
do I boot the computer with the linux drives and the windows drives while booting the linux drive first?
if you have a linux live cd / usb, you could use that to boot to a linux desktop in live mode.
And you basicly should be able to see if both drives are still recognized in file manager.
also make sure your motherboard didnt disable the drives when the cmos gets reset. my server sets the sata drives to diabled when the cmos clears.
Yes indeed.
in an addition to this.
Also check if the sata port on which the SSD is connected is still set to the correct mode. (ahci mode).
I did what you said and loaded linux from a usb and if both drives are plugged in and I found the windows folder. The drive was shown, also I am not sure where to check for ahci mode.
It appears that the extra drive is not visible but the primary one with the x86 files is visible from the linux thumb drive. Is there anyway to make that bootable without the extra drive?
i would be under something like HDD mode.
to make it bootable you could install grub or repair the mbr
I found that it was in ahci mode. Will grub work for Windows?
it should be able to. but do to the pure awesomeness of my laptop i have grub and windows boot loaders separate so no promises.
so how do I go about doing that? Do I put grub on the flashdrive with linux?
what linux distro are you using?
I have Linux mint on my flash drive
you should be able to run
fdisk -l didnt return anything to the terminal
did you run it as sudo?
sorry nub mistake
I ran the command and it returns my drives and the two drives are labeled /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
When I run the command with either of the drives it returns failed to get canonical path of `/cow'.
what windows version are you running
I have Windows 10 on the two drives.