xp and win 7 dual boot

[Allieso]

when i created my hdd partitions i made an extra one for windows 7

50gb for xp, 50gb for win 7 and then the rest (on a 500gb drive)

and also another 500gb drive (both sata)

 

i have xp sp3 32 bit installed and running for ages everything working fine

i then installed windows 7 64 bit onto the free partition and it worked when it reset itself into win 7 but once it had finished installing everything and i rebooted it, it wouldnt display the boot menu and just booted into xp

 

so i put win 7 disc in and went to install it again and when the option came up to install to partition

(i noticed my xp partiton was listed as system but also my 2nd drive was listed as a (system) drive yet it is only used for storage??)

so i continued on and deleted the win 7 partition re created it then formatted and got an error halfway through copying files

 

i then disconnected my 2nd drive and loaded win 7

it come to the install to partition so i deleted the win7 partition and recreated then formatted it and installed it

now when it boots up it works exactly how its meant to but as soon as i connect my other hard drive back in it wont even boot

 

i think it has something to do with what i noticed earlier as the 2nd hdd being a system drive

i have plugged it into an external usb drive loaded it in win xp disc manager and its just listed as healthy not system

the 2nd drive still works fine when plugged into the usb enclosure so im thing theres a boot menu or soemthing on that drive how do i delete it?

 

any ideas??

[Arthur]

any ideas??

Why are all of your posts, copied-and-pasted from the MSFN forums?

 

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/145896-xp-and-win-7-dual-boot/