windows bootloader is on the wrong disk drive

[lusher00]

I had a copy of Windows XP Professional installed on a 74GB hard drive. The OS began acting funky and I had just tried to update my bios so I wasn’t sure if it was the OS or it was the bios so I decided to install Windows on one of my 250GB hard drives as a test. After I did that I realized that 74GB wasn’t enough for my OS anyways so I would keep the new install. But now my system drive is D which isnt a huge problem but it’s a little annoying and a few programs I install HAVE to be on C. Don’t ask me why, Xilinx just sucks (anyone using Xinlinx knows what I am talking about)

I also wanted to install Slacware on the 74GB hard drive. Well I did that and nothing would boot. I know more about slacware than I do about Windows so I am sure I did that right. The bios coldnt find a bootable disk. So I went into recovery console and reinstalled the bootloader on the 74GB hard drive AND the 250GB hard drive. I unplugged the 250GB drive and tried to boot the 74GB drive, then I switched and tried the other combination.

Well it turns out that neither disk will boot on its own anymore. The windows bootloader is on C and boot.ini is on D and I cant find a combination that will allow either one to boot on its own.

What I want to do is make the 250GB disk bootable on its own and show up as C. I have tried fixmbr, fixboot and bootcfg on the 250GB disk while the 74GB disk is unplugged and none of them fix anything. I have ntldr and ntdetect.com on the drive along with boot.ini. I think I am just missing the boot sector.

Some please help me. It took me two hours just to get back the configuration I had originally. The 74GB drive will now boot the 250GB drive but that sucks. I am wasting a drive.