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Hard drive problem =\ Please help

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Zorn

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I'm having a really odd problem with one of my hard drives. The following drives are in my system:

Fujitsu MAS 15,000RPM SCSI drive (This is the drive Windows is on)
Hitachi 160GB SATA drive
Maxtor 250GB SATA drive
Plextor SA712A SATA DVD/RW Drive
Toshiba IDE DVD-ROM Drive

I wanted to try out Vista, so I installed a copy to my E: drive, which was the Hitachi. After I did this, it completely hijacked my computer, and I was no longer able to boot into Windows XP. It also changed my E: drive to the C: drive, something which I cannot reverse.

I reformatted completely, and reinstalled windows to my SCSI drive. The problem is, though, (other than Windows forcing itself upon the D: drive) that anytime I try to boot up with my Hitachi drive enabled, it gives me all kinds of errors, like "NTLDR is missing" or "Error loading operating system".

The BIOS is set to boot from the SCSI drive first, NOT the hitachi, so I have no idea why it does these things. If I disable SATA channels 1&2 in the BIOS, Windows loads up just fine. But anytime it finds that Hitachi drive, I get errors and Windows doesn't boot.

Anyone able to help at all?
 
Have you tried formatting your hitachi drive clean? I would try that if you haven't already..
 
Yep already formatted it clean, according to Windows repair console it has no boot sector data on it.
 
Anyone have any ideas on this? Still stuck with that hard drive and my DVD-RW drive disabled :\
 
The only thing I can think of atm is either a bios setting or your boot.ini. And the missing ntdlr error is pushing my opinion towards the latter since that is a windows as opposed to a board error.
What does the "/fastdetect" line of your boot.ini look like (run>msconfig>boot.ini tab just in case you didn't know)?
 
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


That is my boot settings. Any problems you notice?
 
Zorn said:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


That is my boot settings. Any problems you notice?
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Change the "rdisk(1)" to "rdisk(0)" in both lines.
Also, if you're going to have 1 OS now, change the "timeout=30" to "timeout=0" and you will boot 30 seconds faster.
And, if you'd like to get rid of the black WinXP screen and actually see the dos screen loading your drivers, add "/sos" to the end of the second line. Without the quotes of course.
 
My friend had this issue, and all he had to do is just leave the vista CD in his rom, and it booted. Then, after the next shutdown, he dropped his drive out, and it works fine.
 
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