Hard Drive problem, need some help.

[davelakecity]

Hi,
Just recieved a 120gb seagate Hard Drive (sataI Barracuda 7200.7) from an ebay seller. It's an exact match to the one I already have.
Building a new system, but don't have all components yet so I thought I would test the drive on my current system.
I have 3 drives on that system.. two ata and the sata. One of the ata drives has windows on it and the sata also has windows (use that to boot a relatively clean version of windows for gaming).
I simply replaced my current sata drive with the new one and powered on.
Getting a boot error...asking me to insert bootable disk.
Rehooked up old sata and it started right up again.
So I changed my boot.ini to take out the line about the second version of windows, powered down and swithed to the new sata drive again.
same error...
do I have a bad disk or am I just doing something wrong?

mobo = abit is7

any input appreciated.
thanks

 

[davelakecity]

Need to change the setting in the bios so that it boots from the IDE drive. It's still set to boot from the SATA drive.

hi mp... i changed the primary boot priority to the ide when I changed the boot.ini
did'nt work... is there another setting in bios perhaps?