"Keyan Farlander" wrote in message ...
The Overlay that you have installed on that second drive, might be causing
problems, my suggestion is to use a boot disk with fdisk on it, and when it
boots, switch to the big hard drive, and run this command fdisk /mbr. that
will erase the master boot record and get rid of the overlay, then xp more
than likely can find it, and the bios might be able to as well.


I'm confused: Charles though I should reinstall the overlay software,
you think I need to wipe it out. Which is it? I'm not trying to be
snotty, I truly don't know, this whole overlay thing mystifies me.

Your thoughts did, however, inspire me to check the MS Knowledge
Base--and gave me good ideas about what to search for. "Problems with
Drive Overlay Programs in Windows XP" (article 315679)says NOT to run
fdisk /mbr: I may wipe out my data. It also says that the problems
I'm experiencing are "by design". Thanks, Bill. Microsoft suggests I
back up my data and reformat my hard disk. Yeah, right. Thanks
again, Bill. So running fdisk is out.

And I can't run the overlay software again, I don't seem to have a
copy of it and Hitachi (which took over IBM's hard drive business)
says it's not needed under XP, so they don't have it at their web
site.

Sigh.