Windows can’t boot after removing hard drive

[youmanyousef]

I just recently took out all my drives and decided to run solely on my ssd and bam! The system attempts repairs but always fails giving me the location to a txt file and that’s it. I’ve heard this is due to a “boot manager” problem but I can’t find anything online to fix

edit sometimes it works, sometimes it takes 10 minutes (on a ssd mind you) and mostly just goes to startup repair

[SimplyChunk]

29 minutes ago, youmanyousef said:

I just recently took out all my drives and decided to run solely on my ssd and bam! The system attempts repairs but always fails giving me the location to a txt file and that’s it. I’ve heard this is due to a “boot manager” problem but I can’t find anything online to fix

edit sometimes it works, sometimes it takes 10 minutes (on a ssd mind you) and mostly just goes to startup repair

It means one of your other drives has the boot information on it.  As far as i'm aware the only remedy is a fresh install of windows

[desertcomputer]

5 minutes ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

It means one of your other drives has the boot information on it.  As far as i'm aware the only remedy is a fresh install of windows

^

 

In future just install windows on one drive plugged into computer.

[youmanyousef]

Aww ok i had so much stuff on it ?

[ZacoAttaco]

1 hour ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

It means one of your other drives has the boot information on it.  As far as i'm aware the only remedy is a fresh install of windows

Just out of curiosity...is that standard for Windows 10 install or is it an optional selection? To have install information on multiple drives I mean?

[SimplyChunk]

16 minutes ago, ZacoAttaco said:

Just out of curiosity...is that standard for Windows 10 install or is it an optional selection? To have install information on multiple drives I mean?

I THINK it has to do with whichever drive is the MAIN drive.  Windows selects the first available sata drive and dumps the boot info on there.  I've never seen an option to change this during an install of windows ever so the only way to make sure is unplug ALL but the boot drive and install

 

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and to be honest knowing Windows, there's probably some silly bit of code that'll even put SATA drives ahead of NVMe on config lol

[SimplyChunk]

37 minutes ago, youmanyousef said:

Aww ok i had so much stuff on it ?

Sorry buddy, chuck your old drives back in grab what you can and hope you don't forget anything.  Good Luck 

[youmanyousef]

2 minutes ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

Sorry buddy, chuck your old drives back in grab what you can and hope you don't forget anything.  Good Luck 

Shit, I don’t know how but all of a sudden it now works! First I made a simple volume called system reserved, deleted the one on the other hard drive and now it’s working ?!

[SimplyChunk]

35 minutes ago, youmanyousef said:

Shit, I don’t know how but all of a sudden it now works! First I made a simple volume called system reserved, deleted the one on the other hard drive and now it’s working ?!

Nice man,  Have fun!