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okay i'm going to explain this the best i know how. i have two harddrives connected to my computer. a 500GB and a 80GB laptop drive. I only have the 80GB drive connected because i backed up everything on it and i was bringing all my programs over from my last install. Now when i re-installed Windows 7 i told the windows installation to install everything to the 500GB drive. Everything was working fine until today. I was watching hulu and i unplugged the 80GB from the sata and power cable and that was no problem. (i used the computer for about an hour after that.) i installed a program and restarted the computer and when it rebooted it said "No operating system found" i then installed the 80GB drive back and it booted no problem. So i'm guessing this means the operating system is somehow installed on the 80GB drive. But all my windows file and everything is on the 500GB drive and the only thing that is on the 80Gb is programs (games, save files, things like that) . Can anyone help me out please?

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this is what it looks like.
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Lige
The bootmanager was probably running off the 80 GB hard drive, and when you unplugged that, it couldn't find the boot manager to load the OS that is on the 500 GB hard drive.
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The bootmanager was probably running off the 80 GB hard drive, and when you unplugged that, it couldn't find the boot manager to load the OS that is on the 500 GB hard drive.
how can i fix that?
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hooah212002
fixmbr maybe?
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Wouldnt it be the the boot priority in the BIOS? I know with mine I can nominate which HDD it boots from first. Point this at your 500GB, maybe that will help?

Im pretty sure it is, I had the same thing happen to me.
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Lige
It could be, I havn't had this happen in quite some time (3 or more years), so I can't remember the exact steps I took to resolve it.

If you load the Windows Installation Disc, and click "Startup Repair" does it find a problem When the hard drive is taken out?

And yeah, it definitely could be a BIOS issue(reading around a bit).
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xdanisx
Just reinstall the OS on the 500Gb HDD. When you boot up, plug in the 80Gb HDD and move all your wanted files over.
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Just reinstall the OS on the 500Gb HDD. When you boot up, plug in the 80Gb HDD and move all your wanted files over.
its been a week since i reinstalled though. that means i'll have to back up everything again and reinstall all my drivers and updates.
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