Can't boot without both hard drives connected

vikingdude

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6th Sep 2005

I'm running win xp pro with a sata hard drive. I wanted to add an extra
sata hard drive for storage, but I only want the drive connected
sometimes when I need it. I formatted it in windows using
administrative tools. Everything boots up fine when I have both drives
connected, but when I disconnect the new storage drive I can't boot in
to windows, I'm just getting a dos prompt. I tried playing around with
the boot sequence in the bios but that doesn't help. How can I fix
this?

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