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Okay, so I took a hard drive out of an old PC, and put it in a newer one. The newer one already had a primary hard drive, but when I added the second drive, it wouldn't boot.
I can get in the bios, but windows 7 wont come up. It tries to search for a problem and repair it. But that dont work. So I took the hard drive back out and tried to boot again. Same problem. It worked before I put the second one it perfectly.
I put the older hard drive back in the older computer, same problem as the newer one.
Any help please?
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I have had this exact problem. The only way i got round it was by formatting both drives within Windows setup.
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Sounds like that hard drive is corrupted. Best bet is to format it or if you really need files take it to someone that specializes in data recovery.
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It might of changed your boot order.
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Craig- wrote I have had this exact problem. The only way i got round it was by formatting both drives within Windows setup.

I managed to fix it with a Windows 7 boot disk through the repair, all my files are there on the older computer. Haven't tried on the newest one yet.
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If the drive from the old computer with Windows on it, it was probably because the motherboard was able to see two BOOTMGR files. These tell the board which drive to boot from.

If you have this issue in future, remove the old drive then reconnect it when windows has sucessfully booted. Then you can access the drive as normal from within your current installation.
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