OT: Windows XP trouble

[Emmerich]

I have been trying to reinstall XP on my hard drive. No luck. I have a second IDENTICAL drive (both SATA) and when I have that second drive plugged in, either as a second drive, or as a primary by itself, the XP install program says I have no disks at all.

I can still boot to XP on my original disk, this is the one I am trying to reinstall onto, but I have stripped it down to the bones. I am guessing I am having some issue with the BIOS and the drives and passing that info to XP, but the BIOS sees both drives with no problem. I can boot to my current copy of XP and it sees the second rive fine under that scenario, I formatted it to be NTFS.

I have tried every combination I know of and I can't get the install program to work. Anybody got a clue I what I might try?