Windows 10: My PC cannot find my boot drive

Today I did some work to my computer inside my case. I have 4 harddrives currently and wanted to remove one i was no longer using.

after removing the drive and doing some wire management i booted up and my computer can no longer find my boot drive yet the drive is still on and available in the bios as a selectable drive to boot from.

my harddrive setup is as follows

1: SSD 250gb drive with my operating system and basic programs

2: 1tb m.2 ssd: games and other programs

3: 3tb HDD for storage and files

4: 1tb a blank drive that had a recovery back up ( I wiped this drive and removed it from the pc)



after many attempts and searching i still cant figure out what is going wrong, i tried using a windows boot usb to repair the #1 ssd but no luck. so i installed windows onto my m.2 drive so i can take alook at the #1 ssd via windows.



does anyone have suggestions or ideas i can do to fix the main drive? or do i bite the bullet and start from from my m.2 drive?



thanks reddit

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