What the hell

mikkyh

mikkyh

mikkyh

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Ok. This is really bugging me. There isnt REALLY a problem but I have that urge to have everything running perfectly.

Basically...Ive got two hard drives. An SSD and a HDD. I built my PC a while ago and installed Windows 7 to the SSD. However, very recently I get BOOTMGR is missing on startup unless I boot from the HDD instead of the SSD. It's really weird. When booting from the SSD, where I installed windows, I get the error...when I boot from the HDD it starts up completely normally.

Windows 7 install is recognising the SSD as a System partition and the HDD as the primary partition.

It still works but I wont be able to sleep if i find out WHY this is happening.
 
rpstewart said:
If you asked Windows to install on the SSD then it will be installed on the SSD.

However Windows will put the boot loader on whatever drive enumerates as the lowest disk ID at the time of installation. Therefore if there are multiple drives attached then it is possible for the boot loader to be installed on a different device to the one on which Windows is installed.
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Thing is...its only just started doing this. Previously it would boot fine from the SSD, then one day I switched on my PC and I got the error. Restarted, F8, booted from the HDD and it worked fine.

I only installed windows once and it was definatley onto the 40GB SSD as the OS is the only thing I have on it.
 
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