SSD won't work without another hard drive attached

[blackbeard84]

I bought a PNY 250gb SSD a few months ago. I made sure everything was set up currently. FAT 32, Windows installed, etc. if I only have that particular hard drive hooked up, my PC tells me there are no usable hard drives with Windows detected. When I have my secondary with Windows 10 installed as well, it gives me the option to load up either. I have no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated. I know it's not the end of the world but I've never had this issue and it has gotten me to the end of my wits.

 

[R_1]

the bootloader is installed to the hard drive.
without the bootloader on the ssd it cannot boot by itself.

repair the windows install to the ssd, but unplug the hdd first. this will install a bootloader to the ssd

 

[blackbeard84]

R_1. How do I go about getting the boot loader moved to the SSD? Or should I just google it

 

[jayambroziak]

Since you have installed Windows 10 on the second drive, Windows has moved the boot sector (bootldr) off the ssd and onto the to the second drive (non-ssd).

 

[jayambroziak]

Make a recovery disk in windows. You should be able to fix it with the recovery disk.

 

[blackbeard84]

Ok. Thank you guys. That makes sense.

 

[R_1]

repair the windows install to the ssd, but unplug the hdd first. this will install a bootloader to the ssd

the repair should leave the install as is but fix the bootloader. repair not re-install

 

[blackbeard84]

repair the windows install to the ssd, but unplug the hdd first. this will install a bootloader to the ssd

the repair should leave the install as is but fix the bootloader. repair not re-install

So I finally got the chance to try the solution you gave me. I tried repairing it and it would say there's nothing to repair. Any other ideas maybe?