Boot Problem booting while second hard drive is attached!

[teflontoad]

I had only one Seagate SATA 160GB hard drive installed until yesterday
when I acquired another hard drive (Seagate SATA 200GB). I have Vista
running on my first hard drive and decided I would load Vista onto my
second hard drive for when I move it to my other computer. Only problem
is after the installation the computer would not boot. I disconnected
the second hard drive and the first hard drive booted up just fine. I
then plugged in the second hard drive and searched for new hardware. The
second drive appeared and I formatted it. So, now it is completely
cleaned and empty. I restart and my computer does not even get past
loading the BIOS. I can't even enter setup utility. If I unhook the
second hard drive's data cable, computer boots up just fine. I checked
MSCONFIG and there is only the one Vista OS running off the first drive
and is set as default. Please help. Thanks.


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[riggor]

"teflontoad" <teflontoad.33tfm3@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> wrote in message
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> I had only one Seagate SATA 160GB hard drive installed until yesterday
> when I acquired another hard drive (Seagate SATA 200GB). I have Vista
> running on my first hard drive and decided I would load Vista onto my
> second hard drive for when I move it to my other computer. Only problem
> is after the installation the computer would not boot. I disconnected
> the second hard drive and the first hard drive booted up just fine. I
> then plugged in the second hard drive and searched for new hardware. The
> second drive appeared and I formatted it. So, now it is completely
> cleaned and empty. I restart and my computer does not even get past
> loading the BIOS. I can't even enter setup utility. If I unhook the
> second hard drive's data cable, computer boots up just fine. I checked
> MSCONFIG and there is only the one Vista OS running off the first drive
> and is set as default. Please help. Thanks.
>
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On the drives - do you have the right jumper settings - master / slave?