Removed IDE hdd and winxp will not boot!

[impliedparadox]

I have winxp installed on a sata drive. I have an ide hdd that acts as backup storage. If I remove the IDE drive, my computer will not reboot (it gives a boot failure). When the IDE drive is connected, no problems. I need help people, so thanks in advance.

-- Jared

 

[KingCody]

hi and welcome to techspot

first off, are you sure that XP is installed only the SATA drive? if there is an XP copy on both, then your mobo may default to the IDE drive first.

if you remove the IDE drive and format and install XP on only the SATA drive then it should work no problem.

 

[Tedster]

never mix IDE and SATA. Windows defaults to IDE during errors. Use one type or the other

 

[blue_dragon]

back to the roots

also make sure that the boot files are on the sata

 

[Samstoned]

nothing wrong with mixing the 2 drives at least I never had problems
configuration can be confusing
check the drives make sure your ide is not the system drive
in bios make sure stop on drive errors is unticked