installing XP on a single SATA drive

[Sic6]

It says C:\WINDOWS

And here comes another problem.

I connected my IDE drive again and just found out that the computer don't recognize it.

I still have some of my files there.

Before I installed XP on the SATA drive, I removed the IDE drive first.. but both are working before I do that. And now when I'm connecting the IDE drive, the computer says Not Detected.

[Idontwantspam]

can you post a screenshot of what diskmgmt.msc looks like, please?

And as for the WINNT thing, that's kind of strange, I'm not sure what to say.

[Sic6]

That was a type, on my last post:

Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:

\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM

The error happened again and it showed \WINDOWS\.

I just copied that quote from a mircrosoft website error because i didn't write the actual error that i've seen.

here's a screenie:

when i enter BIOS, i can see there:

Pri Master - Not Detected

Pri Slave - ATAPI CDROM

1st SATA - Not Detected

2nd SATA - Hard Disk

before that Pri Master is showing Hard Disk, but now it's showing Not Detected.

THanks again.

[Idontwantspam]

can you post one in color by any chance? Oh, and use PNG format for screenshots if you can. JPEG is lossy and has worse compression.

It appears that the OS doesn't see the drive at all. Very strange.

One more thing, can you link to that MS site you refer to?

[Sic6]

here's a new screenie:

i actually searched in google the first line i saw in the error, and then copied and pasted the whole error from here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269075

and i'm just curious why this error would come up on a freshly installed xp.

Edited November 24, 2007 by Sic6

[Idontwantspam]

This looks like a more up-to-date version of that KB. Yours said applies to Windows 2000, this is for XP. Try following the instructions in the KB, or try reinstalling again. It's likely that something got messed up during the install, etc. Maybe another reinstall will "bring back" that other hard drive. Speaking of which, it looks like windows can't see it at all. Try looking in Devmgmt.msc and seeing if there are any icons with a red or yellow symbol next to them. If so, shoot the screen and post it. Please. Also, you may want to see if a different computer can see that hard drive, to determine if it's a problem with that machine or with the hard drive itself.

Good luck!

EDIT: Forgot to put the link. D'oh.

Edited November 24, 2007 by Idontwantspam

[Sic6]

Thanks for the advice man.

I'll try those and tell you what happened..