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Strange Happenings When Removing Hard Drive

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trainspotting

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I am running Windows 7 Pro from a Western Digital Black Caviar 1 TB drive. I have another 1 TB Western Digital Black Caviar that I was using as a data drive. I moved all of my data off the drive such that it shows up as "empty" when you click on it in "my computer".

The strangeness comes when I remove this second drive and attempt to boot the PC. I get a black screen with an error code of oXC000000e "The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessable".

I made no other changes to the PC other than removing the second. When I put the second drive back in the PC boots normally!
 
The bootloader is on the second drive. Boot to the Win7 DVD. fixmbr with the second drive detached should fix it.
 
I disconnected the second drive. I booted from the system disk and open a command prompt. changed to c: and typed fixmbr. received the following message:
"fixmbr is not recognized as an internal or external command".🙄
 
This is truely bizarre behavior of the Win7 installer. It has a severe tendency to put the bootloader on a non-primary drive.
 
Tried the command suggested (bootrec.exe /fixmbr ) ; i did get a message " the operation completed successfuly" but when I rebooted I got the same error message as before. Not sure what to do now....
 
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