Disk Boot Failure, but with a twist.

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I turn on my PC and can't access my secondary hard drive (I have two, internal). I take a look, plug them back in, and then:

"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER,"

So I assume my primary HDD is borked, but it's showing up in the BIOS and not clicking or anything.

After a while messing around with W7 recovery stuff, I just unplug the secondary HDD and now everything works fine. Just, you know, I can't access anything on that drive (not to say it isn't all backed up).

Tl;Dr: why would a HDD besides the one I'm booting from cause a Disk Boot Failure message on Boot?

Update: That's odd. Plugged the second drive back in for the lulz and it works now. Windows 7 also claims to have "installed" it, like it was a new piece of software. What the frak is going on?
 
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Nope. Everything was working fine one day, didn't start up the next. I didn't change the boot priorities. All I did to fix it was remove the hard drives and plug them in again, which doesn't explain to me why it happened.
 
oohh, that would explain the situation perfectly, and since I have no contrary evidence I'll have to assume that's what the problem was.

Well, thanks for the help.
 
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