tomb08uk

Hi, I am having a slight difficulty with 2 Harddrives I have in my system.

The Harddrives are a Maxtor 160gb SATA
and a Samsung 160gb IDE.

I have currently Windows XP Media Center installed on the IDE which is partitoned so is dual boot for Windows and Linux. And everything works fine.

But I want to use the SATA Harddrive for my personal data; music, photos, documents etc.
Now on the SATA Harddrive at the current time their is a corrupt version of windows which wont boot (If try and boot loads the windows xp logo then blue screen appears and machine restarts) so i want to be able to format this HDD then use it as slave to run aong side windows. But the problem is if i connect both HDD's then the system automatically tries and loads the corrupt OS, which is on the SATA HDD, which i cant seem to prevent. BIOS settings are listed to boot IDE first but it doesnt seem to do it.

And also if the SATA HDD is connected then it doesnt even allow me to boot from CD so its not like i can do a repair or fresh install.

Sorry for the lengtH of this post just want to explain a good as possible.

Motherboard is a gigabyte.

Any suggestions and advice would be great!

Tom

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