removing dead drive causes boot failure

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I am running W2k server and recently my 40g HD failed. I boot from slave 120g
drive so removed dead drive and altered BIOS. On reboot message says "Missing
OS". I have not changed boot order.
Do I replace dead drive and boot from CD using recovery console to fix mbr?
 
Shawn said:
I am running W2k server and recently my 40g HD failed. I boot from slave 120g
drive so removed dead drive and altered BIOS. On reboot message says "Missing
OS". I have not changed boot order.
Do I replace dead drive and boot from CD using recovery console to fix
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mbr?

Please give full details on your configuration while it was up and running:
- Where exactly was Win2000 installed? Which disk? Which drive letter?
- Which disk failed? Was it a master or a slave disk, connected to the
primary or secondary IDE controller? Or was it perhaps a SCSI disk?
 
I have had this happen when I was using my second drive for part of my
paging file.
the system was crashing as it could not find the path to the page file
I had to put the disk back, reset the page file in windows then remove the
disk

Rgeards
Wayne
 
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