Operating system not found when deploying to machines with two hard drives using MDT 2013.

Computers with two hard drives will not boot after the install OS step in the task sequence. I get the "An operating system wasn't found. Try removing drives that don't contain an operating system" error. I am able to get the
machine to boot by swapping the hard drives' boot order, but the task sequence won't complete after this. The deployment works fine on machines with one hard drive, and I'm not getting any errors from the task sequence. I'm deploying windows7
enterprise x64 using MDT2013. This is a new custom image and task sequence generated using MDT2013. I can't remove the second hard drive because there are scripts that run on the second hard drive during deployment and also because I don't desire
to remove and re-install 250 hard drives. I've not experienced this problem with earlier versions of MDT.

The bdd.log file you sent does not show two internal drives, it shows only one.
Console > Please wait while DiskPart scans your configuration... ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:04 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > DiskPart has finished scanning your configuration. ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > DISKPART> ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > -------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > Disk 0 Online 60 GB 60 GB ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > DISKPART> ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Console > Volume 0 D DVD-ROM 0 B No Media ZTIDiskpart 12/16/2013 9:57:05 AM 0 (0x0000)
Is this the problem?
Keith Garner - keithga.wordpress.com

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