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Hard Drives - Problem adding extra storage to PC posted in the Hardware forums; Here's some additional information. As I said, the only files that are "on" the first drive i added (C drive) are personal files, but when I manually type the directory ...

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Here's some additional information. As I said, the only files that are "on" the first drive i added (C drive) are personal files, but when I manually type the directory C:\boot.ini the file exists and is defined as follows:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
If that gives anyone any bright ideas, I'm all ears.
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Additionally... here is my theory about why it fails on the 7th step of booting windows (finding the hal.dll file).... it COULD be that my initial C drive remains, but that the drive letter for the sata drive become E and F, so it's actually looking for windows on the NEW D drive... the drive i'm trying to add... thats why it gets past the first 6 steps of booting XP and hangs on the 7th step, because the first 6 steps involve the current C drive (which is labeled as system) and then goes to D to actually boot windows. Any validity to this?
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OK... I'm making progress now. I edited the boot.ini file that I posted above so that it reads like this:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional Disk 0" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional Disk 2" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
Now when I have all the drives functioning and boot the machine I get 4 selections when picking an operating system. When I select the last one (XP Pro Disk 2), the computer finds windows and boots as it should. When windows loads all 3 hard drives (with partitions) are theres. The 3 drive letters and locations that I had before remain the same, and the additional newly added drive is assigned drive letter F.

For me this is a temporary fix as I think I'll have to do a full reinstall to fix the separation of the Boot and System drives, but for now, this does it. I guess the problem was that by introducing the new drive it messed with the sequencing so that the boot.ini file was pointing to the wrong drive to locate Windows. I'll let you know if I make further headway, and thanks to everyone who helped me at least get this far... I was very impressed by the response in this forum.

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I figured it was a problem with your boot.ini. You should be able to rename the drives by going to start > administrative tools > computer management. Then in Computer management, click on disk management. You should be able to right click on the partition and click Change Drive Letter.

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Yes and no Adam... it doesn't let you do that for System or Boot drives.

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