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Darth Mall
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2 windows installs merged, need help

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Well I managed to fuck my pc up royally today. My computer boots of of a sata drive, and i have another one attached as storage. I got another harddrive ( an ide one) that had windows installed on it, and plugged it in thinking I could format it in windows for a temporary backup till I get another drive.

Well instead I turn the computer on, log in, and discover that my background has dissapeared, and the ide drive has turned into my c drive and half booted off of it, for lack of a better term. :x

My regular c drive got turned into the i drive. So i figured, oops, just turn off, and pull out new drive. now it freezes at the login page. it also refuses to boot into safe mode. But if i plug the ide drive back in, it turn on perfectly fine, apart form being totally fucked up from the two installs "merging"

So what did I do, and can I fix this without reinstalling windows?

thanks in advance
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Umm....did you set your SATA drive as the first boot device and removed the IDE drive from the bootable device list entirely?
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