Booting into 2nd Hard Drive

[kirupa]

Hi everyone,
I recently purchased a new hard drive and installed Windows on it, so essentially my computer has two SATA drives with SATA0 (what I am using now) and SATA1 (what I would like to have the option of using).

The problem is, when the computer boots up, I no longer have a choice to pick between which Hard Drive to boot the computer into. Is there is a simple fix such as modifying boot.ini or something?

Thanks!
Kirupa :bandit:

[gvozden]

almost all new motherboards gives an option (when holding a key) which of hard disk should be used as primary

if that's not a case
and you don't have that option, but want to use multiboot with two or more disks and partition
modifying boot.ini is ok explained here
http://www.devhood.com/Tutorials/tutorial_details.aspx?tutorial_id=313

[kirupa]

Thanks gvoz! The suggestions in your link did not work, for I should have mentioned that I was installing this with Vista. I found out in the Beta newsgroups that it is a better idea to install XP first and then install Vista.

I just did a clean-format and reinstall of both XP and Vista, and everything works out well now :)

[hybrid101]

hey kirupa, how's vista so far?:Plucky

[ya3]

sif sif Vista...