Win 7 Pro system will not boot with 4 TB storage drive

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I run Win 7 Pro 64X on a Dell Studio XPS 9100. I use a Samsung 840 Pro boot drive and all data is on separate drives. I bought a new WD Black 4 TB to use as a new data drive. When that drive is installed internally the system will not boot. When I remove it, the system then boots fine. I installed the drive in a USB external case and it work fine.

I’d really like to figure out what’s preventing the system from booting. I believe I have all of the necessary SATA drivers and my BIOS is up to date.

I have the same situation with an HGST 4 TB drive

Both drives are GPT.

This problem all started when I did a clean install of Win 7 Pro on the SSD. Before that, a 4 TB drive (the HGST) worked fine internally.

Any ideas?

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Hi, have you checked the boot order in your BIOS? This is the only idea that comes to mind as with all SATA boards they will search for a OS and boot from that drive, regardless on the partition. I boot my desktop from a OCZ Agility 3 and have 2 4TB WD Blacks in RAID 0 which hold all my information and I do not have any issues booting with them attached.

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Thanks for your reply.

I did check that and confirmed that the SSD was selected.

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Hello dg2727. I am having a similar problem. Did you ever get a resolution to your issue?