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I have a Dell Power Edge T110 server. It was with two hdd (250GB) in RAID 0 and running Windows Server 2008 R2 Foudation and one of the hdd started to have problems.

I removed the two hdd, disabled the RAID and set the boot to UEFI. I put a new SSD and one more HD (1TB) slave, and reinstalled the operating system. All right up here.

It was then that I needed to connect the two hdds again in RAID. I turned off the SSD, returned the settings to RAID / UEFI off, I turned the two hds back on. All right too (Although a hd is dying).

I did what I needed, turned everything off, disabled RAID, enabled UEFI, turned on SSD, and windows failed to start. It loops through the system recovery screen or start windows normally.

But if I turn off the HD 1TB, windows starts. If I call, it goes back to the error loop.

I've tried this and this: BOOTMGR is missing. How to replace Windows 7 embedded boot files after applying image in WinPE

Now I'm using the Visual BCD Editor and the screen is this:

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I'm trying this now!

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Actually what happened was the GPT SSD conflict with 1TB HDD (MBR), which had an extended partition that I had created before shutting down the server for the first time. Even if there was no RAID / AHCI swap the problem would happen, it was just a familiarity that went unrecognized. Uncovering the conflict HERE, deletes the secondary hd partitions and converts it to GPT too, and the problem has been resolved.

In short: Windows detects an extended partition on an MBR disk, such as a UEFI boot drive, causing conflict. There is a correction here and here but they should be applied in the installation of the operating system.

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