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GoGeTa006:
I have a new hard drive, 640 gigs SATA.
I had my old IDE hard drive with windows vista 32 installed and everything was fine
I recently installed windows 7 in the new hard drive.

Whenever I boot up the computer, if I place the SATA disk as first priority in the hard drive boot-menu the system halts wiht an error "could not find boot file (i dont remember the name of the file but it contains boot in it)
so I have to boot from the first disc and then select windows 7 to start.

I wanted to format the old hard drive to use it as an anime storage hard drive.

If i format it (i suppose) the computer wont be able to start anymore?

Slykester:
Remove your old drive, boot into the recovery environment and run fixboot or the built in auto-recover.

kureshii:
Have you enabled the boot flag on the new disk yet? Is the MBR formatted correctly on it?

Also, yay for amazingly descriptive thread titles.

vuzedome:
Plug out the other hard disk when installing Windows.
When everything's done, unplug the new one and plug in the old one, try booting in. Success, move on.
Plug in both new and old, try booting into each one.

GoGeTa006:
so basically just reinsall windows without the other ahrd drive plugged in?

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