Problem Setting Up a Boot Drive

I just bought a Western Digital WD4000KD serial ATA drive and installed it one my Abit AV8 motherboard. I have four hard drives now as follows:

IDE1 Master WD1000BB ( my current boot fribve 0f 100GB)
IDE 1 Slave WD1600BB
IDE2 Master WD102BA
IDE2 Slave ATAPI DVD
IDE3 Master WD4000KD (The new serial ATA 400 GB drive)

The machine boots fine and runs fine.

Now, following Western's advice I used their Data Lifeguard software to partition , format the new drive and set it up as a new boot drive by copying all the files from the old boot to the new drive. I then had two boot drives in my machine. I changed the BIOS Hard Drive Boot Order to put the new 4000KD drive in the first boot position and saved the settings. When I booted I found it had booted off the old C: drive!!!!!

I disconnected the old C: drive and was able to get it to boot from the new 4000KD drive just fine. I reinstalled the old C: drive and rebooted at which point it had booted from the old C: drive again. HELP!!!!

OK - Western at this point convinced me Windows doesn't like two boot drives in the same machine and I should wipe the old C: drive clean - which I did - wrote zeros to every sector. I then set it up again with the KD as the boot device, but during the boot it is still trying to revert to what was the old C: drive. Now the only way I can get it to boot at all is by disconnecting the old C: drive from ythe system.

What do I have to do to get it to boot from the new 4000KD drive with the old drive in the machine?

 

Have you edited the boot.ini file to have the new drive boot first? Do you even get an option to choose?

Also what is the operating system?

 

Sorry, my mistake. I use Win 2000 pro. Phoenix-Award BIOS, Athlon AMD64 chip.

Here's my boot.ini from the new WD4000KD drive:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

I don't understand what this means. Tell me please.

 

Not too sure myself but from looking at it it seems when you only have the new drive hooked up it is reading the boot.ini OK.

When you add the other drive (C) the boot.ini now sees that one.

It is something to do with this>

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

Wait for more advice but maybe it should read like this>

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional" /fastdetect

The change is after 'disk'.

if you change it & it is wrong it won't boot at all

Still looking.........

 

Have a read through this lot here. Look for the 'fixboot' about half way down under the 'recovery consol'.

The fixboot command should do it.