Ok so last week I had a fatal error with my windows xp and couldnt boot into it at all. I tried repair install and that didnt work so my only option was a reinstall, but I didnt want to lose all my files. So my great idea was to take an extremely old 8gig hard drive i had laying around intsall xp on it get all my files onto dvds then reinstall windows xp on original hard drive. So I did then I partitioned it and installed windows7 on the second partition. My mistake I think was not uninstalling the old 8 gig drive before i did all this.
My regular hard drive is a SATA hard drive. My old 8gig is IDE and I have my dvdrom drive slaved to it. ever since I did the reinstall my dvdrom has been acting weird so i went to uninstall the hard drive. but now i get a no boot device error on start up. I changed my boot order and removed the IDE from it in the BIOS. But still didnt work. I'm guessing through stupidity I somehow made my old 8gig the boot device. Is there anyway I can make my regular hard drive the boot device. And if so, since I got 2 OSs how can I make sure that it will give the option on which OS i want to run. Thank you for any input.
My regular hard drive is a SATA hard drive. My old 8gig is IDE and I have my dvdrom drive slaved to it. ever since I did the reinstall my dvdrom has been acting weird so i went to uninstall the hard drive. but now i get a no boot device error on start up. I changed my boot order and removed the IDE from it in the BIOS. But still didnt work. I'm guessing through stupidity I somehow made my old 8gig the boot device. Is there anyway I can make my regular hard drive the boot device. And if so, since I got 2 OSs how can I make sure that it will give the option on which OS i want to run. Thank you for any input.