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NTLDR is missing (somewhat complex)
I have four computers in my house, but only two are relevant to the discussion:
I have the Bedroom Computer (Which I will call "B") and a gaming room computer (which I will call "A").
I bought an SSD drive for Computer A and it had a 5+ year old install of Windows7 on it, so I wanted to reinstall Windows 7. The problem is, computer A does not have an optical disc drive, so I juggled potential solutions. Also, Computer A is in somewhat of a tight spot and it is hard to work on the computer, without ripping all the wires off, and removing it from its spot entirely, so I wasn't really wanting to go swapping optical drives or anything like that.
What I wound up doing is I wound up sharing Computer B's DVD drive across the LAN, and I ran Windows Setup from the old Win7 installation on Computer A and told it to install to the new SSD and then once installation was done, I went into BIOS and made the computer boot from the SSD to finish the installation.
All of that went smoothly, EXCEPT for some reason, Windows Setup put some sort of Boot Manager on both HDDs, and every time I boot the computer, I get a "Select what OS you want to boot" and it lists both HDD's Win7 installations.
Slightly annoying, but I can live with pressing the enter key upon turning the computer on.
Well, that was until I had a power outage a couple days ago. Now, when I boot the computer up, I get the dreaded "NTLDR is missing" error (even though that computer never had WindowsXP or earlier on it at all).
I was able to boot from the old HDD and I got the Boot Loader again (which allowed me to boot the new Win7 installation), but I want to get rid of that entirely.
I did some googling, and everybody says the same thing: Boot from Windows Install DVD.
.....but I can't do that, because the computer doesn't have a DVD drive. And apparently you can't run the CD from within Windows to get to Startup Repair while already running Windows.
How does one fix this without booting from a DVD?