Main SDD won't boot without secondary HDD

So this interesting.
I wanted to make an image of my machine since upgrading to Windows 10 and saw it kept on including my secondary drive (which has over 600 gigs of movies). I am not able to uncheck it.

So I figured what the hell and disconnected the drive.
My box will not boot without the drive!

I just built this machine back in December and I used a 500GB SSD for my main drive, while I have 2 regular HDD's for storage and movies.

I turned off, "hide protected operating system files" and found the folders "Boot, Recovery, System Volume information and $Recycle Bin" all showing up!

I have no idea how this drive got dragged into the install, but I certainly do not want my main drive depending on it to boot. It just makes no sense.

I don't want to change ownership of the files and delete then manually either since I have a strong feeling it will kill my system.

Does anyone know how to go about "unlinking" these 2 drives?

because thats a lot of customized settings i would have to redo

I found a possible reason / solution

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/42...n7-boots-drive

That certainly sounds like your problem, alright.

I know what I would do, but all these fixes carry some risk! I use Macrium Reflect and I would use its CD boot disk to fix the booting problems. I would disconnect the old drive then boot to the Macrium boot cd and tell it to fix boot problems. This boot fixer has worked well for me in the past.

The posts you pointed to are basically doing this but with the win 7 install disk.

However you sort it, good luck. Let's know how you get on.

I remember having similar scenarios with 7, going from dual boots to single or changing the system drive. The easy solution was to disconnect the unwanted boot drive. Boot from the Win 7 DVD, choose repair and it would setup the system drive to boot in a few seconds.

Not sure if the repair options in 10 work in quite the same manner.

Nus said:

I remember having similar scenarios with 7, going from dual boots to single or changing the system drive. The easy solution was to disconnect the unwanted boot drive. Boot from the Win 7 DVD, choose repair and it would setup the system drive to boot in a few seconds.

Not sure if the repair options in 10 work in quite the same manner.

this worked for me ,when i was duel booting a ssd with win8 and spin drive with win10, i formated win 10 drive ,and had same boot problem, i booted to my win8 dvd and ran the repair and it fixed the mbr