boot drive help

[No One Puts A Real Name]

i have 2 drives with each have windows

 

HDD 1 - IDE - Windows 7 32 bit (old OS)

 

HDD 2 - SATA - Windows 7 64 bit (new OS)

 

my problem is every time i go to bios and change boot priority the error "bootmgr is missing"

 

i want to set the 64 bit as primary and get rid of the 32 bit.

 

what should i do?

[helping]

did  you install windows on the second HDD with the first HDD unplugged?

[Matsy]

You might of corrupted your hard drives....if you did what helping said.

[No One Puts A Real Name]

did  you install windows on the second HDD with the first HDD unplugged?

 

You might of corrupted your hard drives....if you did what helping said.

 

Yes. is that bad? what should i do then?

[helping]

Yes. is that bad? what should i do then?

Unplug all other drives and reinstall with only the intended installation drive connected.

Sometimes the windows installer gets derpy when there are multiple copies of an OS file and redundant files that exist.

[LogicalDrm]

Clear CMOS. Go to BIOS and set IDE as Slave. Remove IDE drive from Boot list completely. This should prevent old OS from taking over.

[No One Puts A Real Name]

Thanks for the help guys! i just finished it.

[Guest]

take data off drives by pluging them into another system or laptop via usb

 

then wipe them

 

reinstall windows 7

 

looks like you had some super messy setup with 2 windows os on the same system