Want To Remove My Hard Drive

[Steve-O]

ok, I want to remove my hard drive from my system to use in my PS2 (I have 2 Hard Drives in my PC and only need 1 now....) any way, I thought it would have been a simple task, so I turn the computer off and remove my 80gb Drive (My drive that does NOT have windows on, only Games). I then put it in my PS2 and say fook yea, it fits the network adaptor without haveing to mod it .... BUT then I turn the PC Back on and it says something like "BOOT ERROR, Loaded Boot data from Drive C but Boot Table is damaged"

So I go "NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo" I thought I lost all the data and important Emails etc.......... untill I put the Hard Drive I just put into the PS2 back into the machine and it booted perfectly again...

So how do I remove the drive without fooking up the bootup table thing??

Thanks

 

[yaustar]

Strange, does windows have anything tied to that drive? Eg Temp files, Page file etc? The Boot table may be fixable with the XP recovery CD (/f mbr or similar) but wait for a second opinion as this is a shot in the dark..

Also does the HDD plug straight into the PS2 or do you have a HDD Loader?

 

[Steve-O]

need hd advance (the loader) but its a direct fit into the Network card which is good

Drive shouldnt be tied to windows as I just Formatted the computer last week

thanks