Hrm, odd.
So, I tried again, reformated the spare drive, and installed a fresh copy of XP. So far, so good?
Am going to try pluging in original drive and see if I can get it to come up. Any way to set up a SATA drive as a Slave? Just connect it to the SATA II hole?
If Windows doesn’t find the drive, what options do I have to restoring the boot info? See: http://nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41697