[SOLVED] SSD Won’t boot Windows unless my other hard drive is connected

[whotfisjayy]

For some odd reason my SSD will not boot windows unless my useless hdd is connected to the motherboard, when i disconnect the hdd the ssd doesn’t boot windows but when it’s connected it does boot... i have another drive with windows and it works fine without needing the hdd connected but my main ssd i use doesn’t work without it and i want to get rid of that old hdd and i’m so confused on why this is happening...
the error i get when the old hdd is disconnected is “reboot and select proper boot drive” but like i said this error doesn’t occur when the hdd is connected but my ssd is the one with the windows installation not my hdd it doesn’t make sense

 

[Lafong]

For whatever reason, it appears your boot files are on the HDD, not the SSD.

Did you recently install Windows onto the SSD? Was the HDD connected when you did that?

 

[SkyNetRising]

this error doesn’t occur when the hdd is connected but my ssd is the one with the windows installation not my hdd it doesn’t make sense

Actually it makes perfect sense.
When you installed windows on SSD, you had HDD connected. Right?
Well .. when you do that, bootloader partition can end up on HDD and windows gets installed on SSD.
Without bootloader system is unbootable. You remove HDD and you can't boot into windows anymore.

 

[whotfisjayy]

For whatever reason, it appears your boot files are on the HDD, not the SSD.

Did you recently install Windows onto the SSD? Was the HDD connected when you did that?

i think i figured it out and that seemed to be the issue so i moved the partition from my old hdd to the ssd, i have no clue how that happened but it’s fixed thankfully

 

[whotfisjayy]

Actually it makes perfect sense.
When you installed windows on SSD, you had HDD connected. Right?
Well .. when you do that, bootloader partition can end up on HDD and windows gets installed on SSD.
Without bootloader system is unbootable. You remove HDD and you can't boot into windows anymore.

yeah i guess that’s what happened, i was able to move it over and it works now