Problem Taking Hard Drive out of my computer

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Hi, on my current PC (old) I have 2, 1Tb hard drives. The primary one with the operating system, and a secondary one I use for movies and other storage.
I ran into a problem when I disconnected the secondary drive, my goal is to put that one into my New PC, However without this drive on my old PC it wont boot up anymore, the screen after the BIOS simply remains black and the Operating system that is on my primary drive wont boot.
I have no idea why what is causing this issue
Please help, I want to leave my old pc in working order
 
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I agree with reedo_43. The root of the problem is that the original Install of Windows put some semi-hidden backup files on your second HDD and now it will refuse to boot without those present. Here is how to fix.

You need your original Windows Install CD for this, or at least some Install CD for the SAME windows version. Leave ONLY your boot HDD installed, and no other HDD units. Put the Install CD in your optical drive. You must arrange for the machine to boot from that optical drive. If you know it already is set that way, you can skip a bit of this.

Turn on and go immediately into BIOS Setup. go to the section to specify boot device priority. Set it to boot from the optical unit first, and from the HDD second. SAVE and EXIT and...
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I agree with reedo_43. The root of the problem is that the original Install of Windows put some semi-hidden backup files on your second HDD and now it will refuse to boot without those present. Here is how to fix.

You need your original Windows Install CD for this, or at least some Install CD for the SAME windows version. Leave ONLY your boot HDD installed, and no other HDD units. Put the Install CD in your optical drive. You must arrange for the machine to boot from that optical drive. If you know it already is set that way, you can skip a bit of this.

Turn on and go immediately into BIOS Setup. go to the section to specify boot device priority. Set it to boot from the optical unit first, and from the HDD second. SAVE and EXIT and the machine should boot from the Install CD in the optical drive.

Do NOT do a normal Install. Look in menus for a REPAIR INSTALL and run that. It will survey your HDD and discover that the backup files are missing and will place them on the only HDD present. When it is finished you can cancel the Install, remove the CD, and reboot. The machine now should be able to boot with only that one HDD attached.
 
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NeoSatan

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Well it seems that the computer started working without the hard drive(I tried the windows repair booted from a CD and it diddnt detect any issues with the installation) I then did a system restore and that seemed to have fixed the hard drive for whatever reason ,
however I cannot seem to get any keyboard to work wired, wireless, and not even the onscreen one will show up. And for a while the mouse wasent working with it either, but i swapped mice and that worked.
I think this could be the work of a virus or massive driver corruption.
Thanks for the help, but i think now that my harddrive is delt with i am going to bury this computer
 
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