I had a 1TB drive with win7 installed but it started to get full so I bought a 2TB and did a fresh install of windows 7 on it a couple months ago. I have been booting from the 2TB and using that, with the old HDD still plugged in incase there where any files I needed to drag over.
So today i decided to disconnect the 1TB and just use the 2TB. When I booted up again i got a BIOS message 'Please select a bootable media' or something similar. If i restarted and held F8 to get into the boot menu, I could see the 2TB drive there, but if i pressed Enter on it, it showed the same error message.
I then went into the full BIOS menu and went to the 'boot' tab. I set boot priority 1 for the 2TB drive and boot priority 2 for CD drive, and rebooted. I got the same error.
I plugged in the old 1TB drive again and I could boot up using the 2TB drive. How can I boot from the 2TB drive, without having the 1TB connected?
(The reason I want to remove the 1TB drive is because it makes alot of noise)
So today i decided to disconnect the 1TB and just use the 2TB. When I booted up again i got a BIOS message 'Please select a bootable media' or something similar. If i restarted and held F8 to get into the boot menu, I could see the 2TB drive there, but if i pressed Enter on it, it showed the same error message.
I then went into the full BIOS menu and went to the 'boot' tab. I set boot priority 1 for the 2TB drive and boot priority 2 for CD drive, and rebooted. I got the same error.
I plugged in the old 1TB drive again and I could boot up using the 2TB drive. How can I boot from the 2TB drive, without having the 1TB connected?
(The reason I want to remove the 1TB drive is because it makes alot of noise)