so a few years ago i purchased win7 online and downloaded it and installed it onto my 37gb raptor drive. that drive is so tiny it became a pain in my butt, so i bought a cheap 320gb hard drive and installed that, then i downloaded the windows file again from microsoft and installed windows on that. then if i remove the raptor drive windows wont boot. So i just left it installed for a few years... well now im getting tired of having it installed and space is a premium, plus the damn thing is a heat pump. I want a bigger drive again, and i'd like to have a bootable copy of windows on that, without having all my other drives still installed. So, how the heck do i install windows and not have to have my damn raptor installed?
In your BIOS which drive is the Boot drive? The problem your having usually only happens when installing Windows, you use its installer and select a drive other then the Boot drive in the BIOS to install on. It is still using the boot sector of your original drive.
Take out the drives you dont want in, and reinstall windows on the drive you do want in Or - remove the raptor, boot from the windows DVD, repair console > CMD > BootRec.exe /fixmbr you can also substitue the /fixmbr with thes commands: /FixBoot. Writes a boot sector onto the system partition to start Windows /ScanOs. Scans all disks for Windows installations and displays them to you. /RebuildBcd. Scans all disks for Windows installations and prompts you to pick the ones you want to add to the BCD. http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/17521-how-fix-mbr-through-command-prompt.html