Mac Pro Windows 7 - Blinking cursor issue

Recently, I bowed down to the pressure of not being able to upgrade my CPU, and got an SSD. Normally i ran Vista on here, Vista 32 Bit (Baaaad idea). Now, however, I run Windows 7 off of the SSD.
Now here's the thing. Whenever i turn on the computer, I hear it thinking a lot, reding from the Hard drive, before it actually boots up to windows. It displays the two boot options (VIsta on the HDD, Win7 on the SSD). Of course, i pick Win7.
I decided to try and see if i could speed up the boot process by removing the HDD. However, as soon as i did that, it refused to boot up at all, simply taking me to a black screen with a little white bar at the top, sort of like the DOS Type-here bar. it just stays that way, not doing anything. I put the HDD back in, and it works fine.
I can't think of any reason it would decide not to boot from the SSD like that, when there's no dependencies on the HDD I can think of. Could this be the lack of an EFI Partition on the SSD?
Otherwise, i'm not sure how to fix this, or what to do. Please help?
Thanks
-C

i had a simular problem
i fixed it by downloading a application on your mac to enable you to delete and edit the contents on the drive that you have installed it to
download mac fuse
find the file in your windows 7 partition "ATIKMDAG.SYS"
by using the search tool in finder
then delete it
bootup by holding alt key then choose windows 7
and it should boot up fine

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Everything here is ProRes 422, running from a Promise Pegasus2 R4 RAID (drives: 4x Seagate Desktop HDD 4 TB SATA 6Gb/s NCQ 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive ST4000DM000) (that's thunderbolt 2).
I've done everything: I've restarted my computer hundreds of times, I've reset NVRAM and PRAM and done power cycles.
This isn't just some issue that started with 10.9.3 of OSX, the 4k issues happened when I first switched to a 1080p sequence back in February (2014) or so, which means it was an issue even with 10.9.2 and the previous firmware release.
I've reported this issue to adobe.

That crash appears to be casued by the Facebook plug-in.
Create a new account (systempreferences -> accounts or Users & Groups on 10.7 and 10.8), make a new Library in that account, import some shots and see if the problem is repeated there. If it is, then a re-install of the app might be indicated. If it's not, then it's likely the app is okay and the problem is something in the main account.

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