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I installed win7 on one hard drive, but it seems to need 2 to boot
I have a computer with two (IDE ribbon cable) hard drives. One had a bad windows XP installation on it. I installed win7 on the other. I formatted the drive before installing win7.
Then, I decided I want to use the hard drive with the bad winXP installation on it, in another computer (I will format it). When I opened the computer side panel, I wasn't sure which hard drive was which, so I unplugged the power to one, and started the computer.
The thing is, it won't boot win7 with either of those hard drives alone, only when both are plugged in. With HD #1 disconnected, it says "Can't find BOOTMGR, press a key to reboot." With HD #2 connected, I get asked whether I want win7 or an older OS, and when I choose win7, I get an error message, something like "Win7 failed to start. To try and repair, insert install disc, or use recovery mode, etc"
With both HDs, I get asked the same question, "Win7 or an older OS," but when I choose win7, it works. In my computer, I have verified that win7's files are on one disk, and corrupt winXP files on the other.
Whats going on here? Thoughts? Thanks guys!