What have I done?

Drenlin

Drenlin

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So, when I installed my OS (Win7 Pro x64), I had three hard drives installed, because two of them had all of my stuff on them. One is an ancient WD800, which is rather noisy, so I decided to remove it now that I've gotten all of ym stuff. However, when it's removed, the computer will not boot. I get a message saying "bootmgr is missing". Near as I can tell, Windows installed the boot manager to that drive for some reason, even though I specified my HD103SJ during install...but that's only a guess. How do I go about troubleshooting this?

edit: If this makes any difference, there are two partitions on the WD800, and for some reason, the first and larger of the two isn't showing up. Hasn't since I installed. Couldn't figure that one out either. Luckily all of my important stuff was on the second partition... :/
 
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I'd forgotten about that! Didn't work, though...I'm afraid my problems run a bit deeper. :(

I've just noticed that when I do anything important, like installing software, it has to spin up the WD800, so what I'm thinking is that the registry has somehow attached itself to that drive as well. Why it would do any of this, I don't know...

I think I'd rather back it up and reinstall, honestly. That'll kill two birds with one stone, because I know it'll be a good install, and it will allow me to leave space for a Linux partition, which I had intended to do to begin with and forgot. I do dread having to re-download all of my Steam games, though...
 
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Reinstalled...it's all good now. I think that Windows, for some reason, stuck the 100MB system files partition on the WD800. It flies now, haha. I have to say, for $65, this hard drive is a monster!
 
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