Need 2 HD to boot?

[IceWilly]

I Have 2 harddrives:
1 is partitioned in 2, with one partition having windows on it. (drives C: and D:)
the other hardrive is strictly for Music and movies.
(drive E:)

My problem is that i cannot boot with just the OS harddrive plugged in, I need to have both in or i get a boot error.

Now i noticed in my 2nd harddrive(E:) there are boot logs and stuff in the E:\ directory. How do i change this so i do not need the 2nd harddrive, so if it fails i don't lose everything.

thanks

*** I wasn't sure which section to post this in, so if this is in the wrong place, sorry.

[IceWilly]

**Update**

I tried to unhook the other harddrive and boot from the windows xp Cd, but the computer went REALLY slow and i couldn't deal with it. Instead i kept both harddrives hooked up, booted to the windows cd and used the "fixboot" command. i did this and then deleted the boot files that were on my E: drive.

It works fine, BUT the only way i can use 1 hardrive plugged in, is to switch it from Master to Cable Select. Is this the only way it works with one hard drive???

thanks

[lanman31337]

Western digitals are notoriously known for needing to be run in cable select. I have two of them and they have to be run in cable select or the bios does not detect them.

[Hawker-rider]

yes, I second that WD's are very "jumpy" LOL

It could be that the e-disk has a primary dos partition on it, try to make it all an extended dospartition and create one big(or a few smaller) logical dos drives in it. So that way it won't set a bootrecord on it.

Windows installs the bootrecord by default on the first primary dos drive, usually also the first drive letter, but if youhad the second disk, and only erased the data and formatted it, but didn't erase and repartintioned using fdisk or another fancier program, it might recognize that partition as the primary one.

[PsycoPhreak]

Have you determined that the drives are correctly positioned on the cable? (80 conductor cables require that the master and slave drives be conected to their respective conector on the cable) This can cause the problems you are experiencing.