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Till date I always had Win 7 in 32 & 64 bit flavors and occasionally also xp. Recently I got a 1 tb seagate firecuda and installed win 7 64 bit. However, the 2nd install of the same flavor was awkward (in the first install, after expanding files windows rebooted) because it completed all tasks before rebooting. However, when I tried booting from the newer install, I saw the dreaded message “cannot load winload.exe” I deleted that install and tried with 32 bit, same result. Tried Xp too, same result. I even deleted all installs and had 32 bit first, then 64 bit, same result. Currently I am using the 32 bit and typing from there. Is this how SSHD supposed to behave? I thought the 7gb cache would speed up things, but never expected this. What may be wrong, any idea? Thanks in advance for any inputs
SSHD’s do have there limits and I fear you found one ;-{ Basically, when you have multiple partitions with different versions of OS you can encounter loading issues of the OS as the files are the same name so the drive doesn’t know you booted up with a different version as it still has in the SSD cache what it was load last not the new one in the other partition. If you booted up from different drives this wouldn’t be an issue.
