Raptor XP Install doesn't boot with out install CD.

I slip stream XP Pro SP2 to install on my raptor drive, but kept my old OS on the Maxtor drive. Last night, I changed the drive letter for my Raptor OS partition to C and formated my old OS install on the Maxtor drive. This made the system unbootable. I figured I screwed myself, being the Raptor install wasn't that old to begin with, and all important files protected, I just went ahead and reinstalled the OS on my Raptor partition. The install was successful, or so I thought...

When I removed the install CD and set the BIOS to boot on the Raptor drive, the system was unable to boot. I mean as if there is not Windows install on the Raptor at all, it says system boot failure, please insert system disk. So I put the install disk back in, let it get through the "press any key to boot off CD to continue", after which I'm able to boot into windows.

I tried running the system repair, I've tried doing fresh install, nothing! No difference, I still need the install CD to boot on my Raptor. I'm starting to think it's a hardware problem. At this point I'm completely lost. What else can I try? Is this a hardware problem, or is it simply a software install problem?

Thanks.

This is very similar to my problem:

http://www.hardcoreware.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-18528.html

This is extremely irritating.

Can anyone on here help me?

Do you understand the problem?

Apparently there were files that remained from my previous XP install even though I formatted. Windows attempted to boot from those files, I discovered this by unplugging the Raptor, where upon booting I saw systemroot/hal.dll is missing, which indicated there were remnants from the previous install screwing things up. So I unplugged the Maxtor drive and everything booted like it should. I had to dump 120GBs of data onto my Seagate to completely format the whole entire Maxtor drive. Now I moving the files back.

Anyone had a problem like this before. Very strange that Windows would try to boot from a previous partition even though it had been formated. Inserting the install disk probably provided a reference to the Raptor windows install.