Okay so, here's the deal. I have a SATA HDD that is holding my OSes and school/worklike files. Then I have two IDE HDDs for games and virtual memory and tom-foolery. So I decided i'd play with Vista. I take out my IDE's to make partitioning less confusing, and threw out 20 gigs on my SATA for a Vista partition. Installed, rebooted, everyone's happy. XP Loads, Vista loads: Dance time, right? Wrong.
I plug in my IDEs and it goes to hell. Vista will boot, but Windows XP will not. It tells me that \NTRDL is bad and gives me an error akin to (this isn't exact, although I'll get the exact one later) 0x00000002
Tells me to fix my windows install, etc. Well I tried rebuilding based on the manual and no hope. So I've come to the conclusion that when I plug my IDEs in it kicks my SATA to some different hard-drive position. But how do I figure which one, and which to edit in my Boot.ini?
This is what it has now:
Would it be disk() or rdisk() that I should fiddle with? And is there any danger? Or am I totally way off base? Any help would be vastly appreciated to end tons of frustration and loads of stress. Thank you.
I plug in my IDEs and it goes to hell. Vista will boot, but Windows XP will not. It tells me that \NTRDL is bad and gives me an error akin to (this isn't exact, although I'll get the exact one later) 0x00000002
Tells me to fix my windows install, etc. Well I tried rebuilding based on the manual and no hope. So I've come to the conclusion that when I plug my IDEs in it kicks my SATA to some different hard-drive position. But how do I figure which one, and which to edit in my Boot.ini?
This is what it has now:
Would it be disk() or rdisk() that I should fiddle with? And is there any danger? Or am I totally way off base? Any help would be vastly appreciated to end tons of frustration and loads of stress. Thank you.
