Computer will not boot unless mass storage HDD is connected

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Blake Fasse

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I recently got a new HDD to replace my old one and when I took it out it says that the computer needs the boot drive even though the boot drive is on a separate SSD
 
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no, forget it, too complicated

reinstall better, more safe, do backups first, of your own user if you like, reinstall, copy back the backups and the user after created it again, just like nothing happened, in 2 hours you should be back to normal with the new hard disk
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sounds like both hard disks were present when you installed windows, so some boot files could be still there, in the disc that you removed, perhaps a boot partition or a boot recovery partition, 100 or 500 megabytes partitions windows 8 or 10 uses, windows 7 too

that or you changed order of hard disks and uefi bios is complaining so, set the right disk to boot, the ssd in this case

if that doesn't work perhaps repair installation with the installation disc

if that doesn't work, reinstall windows, do backups of everything first
 
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Blake Fasse

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I looked into seeing if anything from the installation was on the HDD and there is but that was an older version of Windows that hasnt been touched since I got my SSD and the SSD is the first in order of boot drives.
 
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no, forget it, too complicated

reinstall better, more safe, do backups first, of your own user if you like, reinstall, copy back the backups and the user after created it again, just like nothing happened, in 2 hours you should be back to normal with the new hard disk
 
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Blake Fasse

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Turns out I read the Disk Manager wrong and the recovery partition wasn't on my HDD (for some weird reason it doesn't have the drives listed alphabetically) so now I'm back to square 1 in trying to figure out whats going on.
 
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