Windows 10: Removing second Hard Drive Stops Win10 from booting up

Can anybody tell me why Removing Second Possible Faulty Hard Drive stops Windows 10 from booting up

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Maxtor Hard Drive Beep

Maxtor drive beeps

Have a similiar situation using a DiamondMax Plus 8, 20GB Mfg Date 4/15/03. Drive used as a second system drive. Drive is recognized in boot menu but not in drive list. Drive is always connected. Computer started locking up for several seconds at a time. Chkdsk on drives and couldn't find that drive. Removed drive from bay to make sure connections were ok and heard the beeping. Shutdown and restart and never got to windows screen. Restarted several times then saw drive in boot menu and Windows loaded but Maxtor not in drive menu. When recognized in boot menu, computer will start but beeps and is not found.

Tried kicking it real hard but no improvement. Any suggestions?

 

removing a second hard drive Windows 10

I replaced a second hard drive in my HP Envy with a larger one. After uninstalling via disk manager and restarting, the disk was removed from the listing on file explorer. I installed the new drive and restarted, drive manager recognizes the new drive
but still shows the one I removed. When attempting to initialize the new drive, I get an error message "data error cyclic redundancy check". What do I do from here?

 

Wondering about a second hard drive and installing Vista on it and also a ..

Annoying having to go into the bios each time though. And for me not a option unless i run 2 arrays.