Hi to all the forum

have you ever tried to connect to a windows 7 64 bits one or more disks taken from a NAS' RAID 5 set?

I've downloaded and installed Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bits from MS website (90 days evaluation).
Installed and fully updated, including SP1 with all the updates.

As soon I plug one drive from any NAS set, windows 7 doesn't boot anymore.

It is not a disk boot order issue, because you see a windows progress bar
"Loading Files"

And because of the hang, when I Ctrl-Alt-Del the PC, at next boot I get the screen that prompts for the two options
"Repair Windows Installation"
"Boot Windows Normally"

So the drives boot order is correct.

Also the PC is ok, because BEFORE than windows 7, I've installed Windows XP PRO SP3 and I made the same tests, but everything was working fine. I bought this m/b (Asus P8P67 Deluxe) because I wanted to have 8 SATA ports and also take the advantage of a 64 bits FS.

Looks like that W7 tries to "mount" the partitions and fails or something has to do with the NAS drives' boot sector.

Please note that I'm talking about healthy NAS drives.

Thank you for any confirmation and or suggestion.

Cor

I've made another test

I've quickly installed Ubuntu on a new sata hdd connected alone in this pc.

Then I've plugged back the windows 7 boot disk, it happen the same.

So it is not a matter of the NAS' disks.

Looks like that windows 7 boot hangs if any additional linux partitioned and formatted drive is present.

Again, I confirm that (obviously), if i connect an additional ntsf drive, everything boots fine.

Can you kindly confirm

thank you

Cor

in my opinion it happens becouse you attached a faulty drive.
did u try to run a diagnostic from dos?

You could use a disc editor to change the partition type byte(s) in the partition table to something that Windows doesn't attempt to mount.

Partition types: List of partition identifiers for PCs:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/p ... pes-1.html

A "Linux native partition" is type 0x83, NTFS is 0x07.

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