- Jun 4, 2001
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I just got a 2nd hard drive from a friend; it's an older one that he didn't need anymore, but I thought I could get some use out of it. I'm running Win2k on my primary hard drive, and I wanted to format the 2nd one to NTFS as well, so I booted from the 4 Win2k setup disks with my primary hdd as master and secondary as slave. I proceded to delete the partition on the 2nd hard drive and then decided to go ahead and format it using the disks also. I forgot, however, that the setup automatically begins installing Win2k when the formatting is complete. I didn't want Win2k on the 2nd hard drive, so when it booted up and asked for the Win2k CD, I hit cancel and shut down. Now when I try to boot up, it defaults to the 2nd hard drive (only flashing the option to choose my first hard drive for a split second). I tried unplugging the 2nd hard drive completely, but it still trys to boot from it and reports a boot failure when it can't locate it. So how do I fix my problem? I want my original hard drive to be the one I boot from and the other one to be and empty storage drive, formatted in NTFS. Advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Endarkened
Thanks,
Endarkened