2 installations of Windows, how do i remove one?

[barringtoast]

Hi,

I've just built a new PC, but I was a little impatient in waiting for my new SATA HDD to arrive, so i used up one of my 2 IDE slots on the motherboard and installed XP onto my old 30Gig IDE HDD.

Only thing is that now my SATA HDD has arrived and I really need both my IDE slots for my 2 DVD Writers.

So i installed the SATA drive and loaded XP onto it and now i get an option of which XP to boot up, but now i need to be able to remove the old IDE Drive in order to fit my second DVD Writer.

How do i go about doing this? i mean, is it just a case of taking it out?
is there a proper way to remove the "Which XP?" boot up option or will just taking out the hdd work fine?

Cheers in advance.

 

[barringtoast]

cheers, i'll try that now, ill let you know how it goes

 

[barringtoast]

nope, that didn't work

i opened up the pc and unplugged the ide drive.

all i got upon boot up then was "boot error, insert system disk and press enter"

i'm desperate for help now

 

[barringtoast]

ta, i'll give that a go and let you know.