Help fixing a computer please

[coolguydudeman]

Basically the computer had a numerous ammount of partitions which i deleted, the computer had two hard drives the origional C drive had the operating system on.

I formatted the E drive and reinstalled xp onto this as the C drive had about 20gig and the other hard drive has 160.

Anyway, after many problems. Everytime i try and run the E hard drive, without the other hard drive plugged in. I get numerous errors, NTDLR missing, Media cable errors etc...

But when i run with both hard drives it runs perfectly fine. Although it gives you two options to of which operating system to run. (old C drive and the new installation on the E drive). After playing about with the boot.ini file i have managed to make the e drive the default and have removed the option for the C drive startup, although this works fine now, i still would like the C drive removed. and if possible the E drive changed to the C drive...

I cant run any recoverys etc, or actually boot the xp cd from startup. Ive had to do this whilst in the os. I have tried editing boot options in the BIO's. But it isnt picking anything up on the CD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Anthony.

 

[coolguydudeman]

thanks for the reply.

i think the wiring is fine. H/D's are being picked up correctly on startup as primary and a slave. disc management will not allow me to delete anything or format either drives.

the new error i am receiveing now is NTLDR is missing when unplugging the other H/D and trying to just run the E drive.