Problem booting w/S-ATA && P-ATA

Okay, this is starting to piss me off .


I have three hard drives and two cd-roms I'm trying to run(WinXP). My boot drive is S-ATA, and I have a media drive which is also S-ATA, then my back up drive is IDE.

I'm currently running both cd-roms on primary IDE channel one, and the back up drive is on the secondary IDE channel as a slave. Then my S-ATA drives are third and fourth respectivley.


It has my back up drive listed as C: and the drive I'm booting from is listed as D:. The problem is, when I have my media drive (S-ATA, listed as E: ) hooked up it refuses to boot (says it's missing "hal.dll"). I can disable it in the bios and the computer will boot fine, but I need to be able to use it.

I tried unhooking my back up IDE drive and leaving the two S-ATA drives installed, but then it can't find any boot media on the drive (I'm not sure if it even looks).



Previously I had the IDE drive running off of the cd-rom channel and it was slow as hell but it worked, and it was listed as E: instead of being C:.




So what the hell do I have to do to get it to boot and run all three of these drives properly??

 

If someone can just tell me how to make it where my IDE hard drive isn't listed as the C: drive I think it would work..

 

dont know much about sata, but there is somewhere in the bios to tell it which drive boots first. (cd rom, ide 0,1,2, floppy, etc). I would think there should be an option for sata as well, if not, then...nevermind

 

Yea, I went through the boot device priority. When there's an IDE drive plugged in it doesn't list any of the other drives to boot from.

 

Actually.. I think I might have it working now. Except for the fact that I cannot access anything on my Media drive now.


When Windows starts it runs some check disk thing on the drive. It's still formated NTFS and everything, and it's showing ~240gb of data on there (which is correct). But when I try to access the drive nothing shows up..

I tried to run Windows error-checking and it starts, then it says it was unable to complete.

 

Nevermind, I got everything working.


I'm not exactly sure what the problem was.. and it's kind of screwy having my backup drive listed as drive C: and my working drive listed as D:, but I don't mind as long as it all works.