Removing HDD = can't boot?

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Dario D.

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(well, searching tells me nothing thus far, so...)

One of the systems here doesn't want to boot when a certain drive is removed... (it's just a secondary drive with an unused copy of Windows 7 on it). I've certainly never ran into THIS before, but I read that it's supposed to happen when removing any active Windows drive.

Actually, after some testing, I realized that if I do ANYTHING with the drives (such as add one, but bump all the SATA cables down a notch), nothing wants to boot (until I pop in a Windows CD, for some reason, and then the computer's like, "Oh,cool, well if you put in a Windows CD, everything's okay then.")...

How do I get rid of this drive? I have to send it back to the Egg.
 
Sounds like that drive somehow has your default boot partition on it. Seems like you have to move it to the main OS drive that is actually being used. I am not exactly sure how to do this off the top of my head but I know I had a similar issue with Vista a while back.
 
Sounds like that drive somehow has your default boot partition on it.
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Yep, I've seen it when the OS is installed with more than one drive connected and Windows puts a few things here and a few things there.......

Usually repairing the MBR helps.
 
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