Mobility of OS'es installed on seperate drives?

Short version: I installed Windows Server 2003 on my secondary drive of my machine running XP Pro. I want to take the 2k3 hard drive out of the machine and use it as the OS on my secondary "bare-bones" machine which I have slapped together. However, the start-up files seem to be on the hard-drive with the XP Pro installation, since it was the OS that was running when I installed 2k3 on the secondary drive - which means it won't boot. Make sense so far?

What files do I need to copy/alter for the 2k3 installation to work by itself? If at all possible, I would like to not have to move optical drive/IDE cable over to the bare-bones system to reinstall 2k3 from the CD-ROM. I have gotten (gotten?) away with this little method when installing XP before (install it on a working system, then transfer the drive to one of my lesser machines), but not at the moment.

Any tips would be appreciated.

 

If your new barebones rig has different mobo/chipset, your going to have more problems than missing start up files.

IMO best bet would be to install hdd in the pc, format and reinstall OS.

 

Ok, Thank-you