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?
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?