No boot device on a new SSD after just a few reboots

I received a batch of new M4 128 gb 2.5" SSD's yesterday, and used one of them on a known good working machine. I installed the SSD on SATA port 0, then commenced loading Windows 7 Enterprise on the SSD. I booted to the SSD a couple of times just doing updates to Windows 7, then noticed that the SSD would no longer boot (no boot device found). I took that SSD out, and tried another new one. The same thing happened with another SSD from the same batch. I then tried using a different SATA cable, a different SATA port, a completely differrent workstation, etc. to no avail. I tried booting from a normal Hard drive on both workstations with no problems. Now, in all cases the BIOS detects the SSD's just fine, I can put the SSD's in a drive dock and see all the data, I can even boot from another device and image the SSD using Clonezilla, they just won't boot. I got the latest firmware update ISO and booted from the resulting DVD, but the firmware on the SSD's is already the latest version. The workstations I am using are DELL precision T5500's, and the Bios option for RAID is automatic/AHCI, a setting I have used with SSD for a year with no previous problems. Also, I have been using these same workstations with these exact M4 SSDs for a long period now, and have never experienced a problem before. Finally, and this is strange, if I add another hard drive to the workstation, (a ahrd drive with no partitions of format), and select that other hard drive from the one-time boot menu, the M4 will boot! I thought that was very strange. (I did double check by the way, once Windows starts, the M4 is the c: drive, and the other drive has no data on it). I am going to perform some more testing today, but any help on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

I just discovered something new on this. Apparently, Windows put the boot loader on a small partition on the other Hard drive in the system for some reason, something I haven't seen before. So, even though I install Windows on the SSD in SATA0, the drive in SATA1 is the one that gets the small (100mb) partition with the boot loader. Is there any reason why that would happen? I'm thinking maybe there is a difference in the drives that could be confusing the order of the drives as presented to Windows? Incidentally, the other drive in the system is a Seagate Barricda 2TB model: ST2000DM001. What I am doing to remedy the situation is to remove all drives but the SSD, install Windows, and determine if there are any subsequent problems.

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