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Old Oct 8, 2010, 07:25 PM   #1
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Okay, so as some of you know, I am going to be RMA'ing my 750GB hard drive because the reallocated sectors count is too high. Anyway, I turned off my computer and took out the hard drive then started up again. After it posted, I got the "Reboot and Select proper Boot device" error, so I did that. I selected the CD drive then hard drive then restarted. Still gave the error, so I disabled the CD drive and my 1TB alone (Which has Windows on it), and it still would give the same error. The only way I can get it to start up is by reconnecting my 750GB hard drive, which again, has no data on it, it was never RAIDed. The only thing I ever did to it after I formatted was give it a volume label so I could run some more tests on it.

Any suggestions on what to do?

Also, I disconnected the CD drive, tried using all the SATA ports with all my cables, tried all my available SATA power ports and still no Windows. I tend to attract stupid problems like these.
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Old Oct 8, 2010, 08:53 PM   #2
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Is the 1 TB drive a Primary partition?
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Old Oct 9, 2010, 12:01 AM Threadstarter Thread Starter   #3
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Is the 1 TB drive a Primary partition?
Indeed it is.
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Old Oct 9, 2010, 12:31 AM Threadstarter Thread Starter   #4
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Never mind, I fixed it. Turns out the Windows installer put all the OS files into my 1TB and all the boot files into the 750. Again, this only happens to me.
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Old Oct 9, 2010, 01:05 AM   #5
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Never mind, I fixed it. Turns out the Windows installer put all the OS files into my 1TB and all the boot files into the 750. Again, this only happens to me.
no it doesn't, i'm sure something similar has happened to me in the past.
at least you figured it out pretty sharpish mate
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love it when windows likes to stuf files in strange places..

this is why i try to for example... install windows 7 with only a single drive attached to begin with and after it installs the files and does a reboot.. i reconnect the drive at this point.
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