Z87-G45 Multiple SSD's & Multiple Boot WXP/W7/W8.1 ???

Hi there, gave up on my old K8T board following advice from BB2K and bought a G45 with a large i5k & 16GB memory & Geoforce GPU...all working great.
Have installed WIN 8.1 on a Samsung 840 Pro SSD. Also Win 7 on a second Samsung SSD and currently installing Win XP 64 on another Samsung SSD. Have updated them fully & used the MSI Live updater so each drive is as good as it gets patch wise.
Again individually each drive working great. But I do not know how to make the system multiple boot.
Tried briefly with all three drives. Machines sees them but no matter which hardware selection I make it goes into WIN 8.1. If I disconnect and just have one drive in, each O/S boots fine.
Having on a previous machine had WIN 8.1 control the boot of the same drive configuration, it was a bit flimsy and I'd prefer the MSI board do this via hardware but am unsure how to do that......to be honest first modern MB I've worked on since the bad old days (circa 2003) so unfamiliar with new options & terminology.
Can anyone suggest best way and options please to achieve this? Or is there an article or link you could point me towards?
Appreciate any pointers or help I can get from anyone. Made my first post a couple of weeks back and had super help with that one. Fingers crossed this time. Many thanks

Quote from: badboy2k on 03-December-14, 07:33:59
to set up a RAID0 you go into the BIOS and change:
1: the drive mode to Raid
2: save and exit
3: as it restarts hit CTRL+J
4: in the new interface tell it to make a Raid array
5: set it to Raid 0
6: assign all 3 Drives to the Raid 0
7: let it make the raid array
8: format the RAID
now your good to go
it may be easier to use the software boot manager as you will need to download the RAID drivers for your board and make sure you have them when you install each OS as you need the RAID driver for it to function correctly!
software boot manager: upside: would be easier to set up and more safe as you will have 3 intendant disks. downside: you do not like that way and they will only be at SATA 3 speed.
RAID 0: upside: would be more streamlined and would have a side effect of being alot faster during operation as you have 3 drives each with full SATA3 speed acting as a single drive (1500MB/s ish read so it will be incredibly fast)! Down side: if a drive goes bad you would have to start over again and make the raid and install the OS's again.
Very interesting stuff. Well that makes things interesting because the intention is to make the machine a sort of "thin client" or "netbook".....ish. I have a large RAID10 NAs which the aim is to take all the data management issues and leave the PC's with minimal data and apps on them.
And given that SSD's 'should' be more reliable than the old mechanical drives then you would hope that a potential drive failure should be a less frequent event.
I like the potential speed advantages and was not aware of that. And on the RAID front, would it be an option to step up to something like RAID5 or RAID10? Or would that be an overhead or complexity a bridge too far?
The drivers you mention, do you mean for the Samsung Pro 840 drives themselves?
I sense a rebuild coming on!
Edit: .... thinking on, I have access to another Crucial 256GB SSD. Would that be something I could add to the RAID array? If we are going to bite the bullet then I'd prefer doing it only once. And if the RAID 5 or 10 option really was an option then having 4 drives (3 Samsung and the larger Crucial one) would be a good way to go. But I read that all the drives have to be the same....is that the case? Certainly on my NAS box it is the case very specifically so.
But if I could add this unit it might make sense to do so.

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msi z87-g45 @ bios v1.3
i5 4670k @ 4.4ghz, 1.2v
corsair 750tx
gskill ripsaw x 8gb ddr3 1600
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Quote from: potaco on 29-August-13, 22:53:50
I have a similar situation running a similar configuration:
i5-4670k
Z87-G45
Gigabyte GTX 760
8gb Corsair RAM
750W OCZ PSU
120gb Samsung 840 SSD
(500gb HDD + 2x150gb Velociraptors in RAID 0)
I originally tried using an older OCZ Vertex 2 120gb SSD and ran into massive problems with it being erratically recognized in the BIOS (I was able to install Windows to it once, then never able to access it again). I guess that is due to some issue with the Sandforce controller I hadn't known about til reading through this thread.
I switched to my newer Samsung SSD and things are working "OK", but still not great. For some reason, every time I shutdown my PC, my BIOS gets cleared. Since I have multiple drives, it resets the hard drive boot order so that it tries to boot from my 500gb, then my RAID, then my SSD. I guess one of them must be set as bootable because I get some kind of "Windows cannot be found" error every time until I manually go into the BIOS and reset it. Rebooting my PC works as expected; this is only occurring with a shutdown.
It's almost like the CMOS battery is dead or something, but it's a brand new mobo and the system time remains correct.
Any ideas?
It is just a firmware issue. I got this fixed by updating the firmware of the SSD. May be you can also give a try to update the BIOS firmware as well. This will surely help. Older versions of Vertex have had this issue which has been successfully addressed by the firmware fix. Hope this helps!

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I have an older sata HDD would that be the issue?
I was able to install windows on a new SSD and it boots and works fine so its obviously something to do with the older HDD.

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I just purchased this board with an i5-4670k
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Here is the steps I do prior to get this stalled on BIOS load screen
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5- I browsed a little bit.
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7- I shutdown the computer.
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So can someone, from MSI, help me?
Thx
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MB: Z87-G45 Gaming
BIOS: v1.6 (Which I falshed from the BIOS menu)
CPU: i5-4670k
RAM: Corsair 8GB (1866MHz)
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Hey!
I decided to chip in since I have almost the same issue.
My PC boots to Windows and runs just fine apart from the 2second A2 debug code delay. Been playing games like BF4 for a good amount of time etc.
I just seem to be getting that same A2 debug code whenever I boot, seems to be the WD Caviar Red drive I just bought a week ago, already tried a few different sata and power cables, which dont help the case. When I unplug it the boot happens normally without any debug codes. Thing is the HDD seems to be working just fine, tested it with HD Tune Pro and CrystalDiskInfo. Also im not certain, but pretty sure that the A2 debug code only started happening after I installed a GTX 770 (day after the WD 1TB Caviar Red drive). Then again that doesnt make much sense? Since then it would most likely be an issue with the PSU, but seeing how I can play BF4 on high settings for 2hours straight it most definately isnt I think. My problem doesnt have anything to do with overclocking though, since I run everything on default.
Any ideas? And again, sorry for chipping in your thread. Just saw the same debug code problem and thought I shouldnt do a new one.
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Re: No boot no bip no screen with new MSI Z87 G45 Gaming

What did finaly fix your problem ?
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Memtest is included with the forum flash tool.
>>Use the MSI HQ Forum USB flasher<<

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Hi here!!
I review a lot of mozilla docs (out dated or without complete info), forums, googling ... about how to share firefox/thunderbird/ligthing data between platforms on dual/multiple boot system.
Every user in same trouble are repeating (copy/paste) in the solution to share the SAME FULL PROFILE on all platforms. I review profile data and folders and I can see files and config data that are platform dependent; then I think that share FULL PROFILE between is not the best approach, for example Linux and Windows will produce several problems (and a lot of problems with the add-ons)
In these same mozilla docs recommends to share only data and maintain custom profile for each platform, but not more info how to do it.
Please can some kind advanced :) provide some info about the correct approach. Or a better tech info about how is possible the recommendation of sharing same profile between platforms without problems. Because with the current doc info, there is no way to get a clear answer (Almost I can't :~).
Thx guys!

''the-edmeister [[#answer-675259|said]]''
<blockquote>
The Mozilla Developer Network documentation is here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
</blockquote>
Thanks, but As I said at first I reviewed mozilla docs too, but mozilla only do mention profiles content or management, but not how to share in multiple platforms or how profile must be created or be treated as cross-plattform.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Multiple_Firefox_Profiles
Some googling and bloging ... a lot of people are saying (repeating coping & pasting same solution), share complete profile between platforms, but this is not correct, in profile folder you can see platform dependent data as in the prefs.js file. And maybe, some schema database issues (but no info about it in mozilla)
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sharing_a_profile_between_Windows_and_Linux
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<blockquote>
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Has anybody already use the multiple-boot capability of Windows 2000 to install LabVIEW-RT on the hard disk and to keep Windows 2000.
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This has not been tried or tested by National Instruments as far as I am aware. I have read through some of the documentation on Microsoft's website and it appears they only support multiple-booting with their other operating systems. You may be successful setting up a dual boot machine (that does not use a floppy to boot into RT) using third party tools.
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Hello,
I recently upgraded my PC with a new MSI Z87-G45 mainboard, processor, 8GB memory, and an MSI video card. I kept my old HDD drives (4x 320GB Western Difgital SATA drives), case, a recently-purchased PSU, etc.
Two of the drives contain my old Windows XP install, in a RAID0 config. This will not boot since switching to the new mobo, presumably due to the lack of AHCI drivers. So, I tried installing Windows 7 on the other drives, first in a RAID1 mirrored drive, then I de-linked them to try to boot as a single drive. Windows 7 begins to boot, then hangs on the Starting Windows screen and never completely loads. Booting from CD to Repair the installation similarly hangs with no respinse.
The mobo is set up in RAID mode. This is the mode it was in when I installed Windows. Switching to IDE or AHCI mode causes the system to reboot almost immediately.
I guess what I would like to know is:
What settings do I need on the mainboard in order for Windows 7 to install properly (not that I feel like another 4 hour installation ordeal)? I currently am using SATA in RAID mode, boot order DVD then HD, all others disabled, and Legacy + UEFI.
Do I need to install the drivers from the included driver disk, and if so how do I do that if the machine cannot boot? The installation procedure does not ask for any 3rd party drivers like XP etc used to.
And frankly, if the system can read from the disk just fine to boot to a certain point, why should it even have this issue? Don;t need an answer to that, it's just frustrating.
Details:
MSI Z87-G45 1150RT mainboard
MSI R7 ATI 260X video card
Intel Core i5 4570 3.2G CPU, stock HS
Team 1600HC DDR5 DIMM
600W Corsair PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
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I Have multiple boot partitions on my mac pro. 1 mountain lion and 1 snow leopard. is there any way to make disks read only to the other bootable partitions?
so for example, when im in one of my snow leopard I dont want snow leopard to be able to write to my mountain lion and vise versa. Please let me know.

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1) Boot into one of your operating systems.
2) Log into an Admin account
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5) Get Info… on that drive or partition by using the Command-i keystroke, or File > Get Info
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UUID=XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX none hfs ro
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15) That's it. Press Escape once, then type a colon:
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qw
These stand for "quit" & "write". Hit Enter, and the text editor will save and quit.
And that's it. If you reboot your Mac Pro at this stage and boot into the same OS you were just working in, you should find that the other OS's drive or partition is now read-only. You can confirm this, after you've rebooted, by launching Terminal again and typing:
mount
Hit Enter, and you'll see a list of all your mounted devices. Some you won't recognize, but you should see that the line referring to the other OS's drive will have, "read-only" next to it.
Now, just repeat for the other OS, and you should be done. If you have any questions, post back here. NB: to stop the other OS's drive mounting at all on boot, replace "ro" in step 14 above with, "noauto". If you want to use more than one variable here, separate them with a comma but don't add a space—eg.:
ro,noauto,noexec
In this example, a drive will not be mounted on boot, but when it is explicitly mounted (eg. with Disk Utility) it will mount Read-Only, and with the ability to launch programs stored on that drive removed ("noexec"). This latter can be useful if you use Spotlight to launch applications and don't want to accidentally launch an application on the other OS's drive.
HTH.
PS: I was in a hurry and didn't proof-read this. Any questions, just post back.

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I took out the graphic card & ram sticks, pulled the plug for leds & case fans, took all cables off HDD's, now only cpu & one stick of ram in dimm 2 connected + power switch.
plugged vga cable direct in MB, blank screen, then plugged cable in MB HDMI, blank screen.
tested monitor, ram & power supply in my sons computer which is a x58 LGA1366, all worked well.
I have no means of testing motherboard or cpu.
specs:
MB: MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
CPU: i5-4670k
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Tactical 1866MHz 9-9-9-27 1.5v
PSU: Corsair CS650M
I also tried another PSU a Thermaltake AP850W
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I have reset all i.e. pulled plug, taken battery out, pressed reset & shorted the two reset pins next to battery.

newer board are different they need at least a CPU to even show a code as they use that to activate the BIOS and if they do not have that it will FAIL to post anything as the board is used as a backbone as nearly all the important stuff is on the CPU itself (Processor, IMC, SATA controller, Network Controller, VRM (on Haswell), GPU and many other things) so it will fail to post as before it was only a processor but now there more of a system on chip really and has most of the important stuff that used to be on the Board itself so without that the Motherboard is just an electrical plane with impressively limited connections as all the good stuff is now on the Processor that you do not have!
There is not much that you can tell till you at least get that CPU as the board has nothing to work with as there is nothing to process the signals from the BIOS so its just a useless item so shows nothing.

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