Windows boot failure

[Dorsetmike]

I've ordered a 64Gb SSD from Amazon £35.25 and already have a caddy. I also have some USB memory sticks up to 32Gb which I can use (if I can find where they're hiding)

[themadhippy]

On the machine you want to be internet free go into the network settings ,right click the ip4 settings then propertys, in the new window  set a  static ip adress  and  leave the defualt gateway address blank.

[Dorsetmike]

Still having problems, I now have SSDs for both PCs amd installed Win7 pro on both SSDs, now when I swich on I get a screen asking me to select operating system and gives me 3 options for Win 7, no matter which I select boot hangs at the "Starting Windows" screen.

I  can boot fine with only the SSD connected but not with a conventional drive also connected.

If I put he conventional drive in an external USB caddy and go to Control panel partitioning screen the external drive shows a 100Mb EFI system area  which is not accessible to format or do any other actions, I suspect that has Windoze boot manager in it which is why I get the boot problems.

Any suggestions for removing it?

[themadhippy]

qparted would be my goto tool,use the live version,boot from it and play with your partions,but do make sure youve a back up  as its very easy to wipe the entire drive.You could also try  disabling uefi in the bios

[Dorsetmike]

Think I have it sorted now, had a brain fart and did a Google, found a few hints and tips. Mostly involving various functions in diskpart, quite a few options in it. Got one booting properly now, so maybe I can start loading some software now.

Now to try the other one, fingers andf other extremities crossed!