From: John Beckett 

"Glenn Meadows"  wrote in message
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> If you remove the second HD, and try to boot the system, it starts to boot,
> then ends up at a Blue Screen (not the BSOD, but a graphical screen with the
> Windows Logo) and never boots.

Do you literally mean that there is no error message ... the system just
never finishes whatever it was trying to do?

That sounds like a cabling or jumper problem. I would not expect  Windows
to go to sleep when trying to boot. If it couldn't find what it wanted, it
would report an error.

One thing you might try would be edit *one* boot.ini file (whichever is on
the partitiion that you think the BIOS is booting) and put any recognisable
text in the menu. Like "XXX". On booting, do you see this text?
Uh oh ... I've forgotten if you see the boot.ini menu when you press F8
during boot. I was going to say to press F8 and see if the boot text
contains the XXX. If it did, you would removing some confusion about which
drive was being used to boot.

John

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