T.D.,
Installing Win2K onto the second disk, without removing the 'Active' flag on the old HD, may have been the cause of your troubles.
When the disk is partititioned, one of the partitions must be marked 'Active' to install Windoze.
In a multi-HD system, only a single disk can have an active partition at any time.
I ran into this problem after upgrading my laptops disk. I removed the old disk, installed & partitioned the new disk, installed Win98 onto the new HD etc. All went perfectly well. The single disk setup worked fine.a
I got a caddy to allow the old HD to be used as a second disk via the PC-Card slot.
Wouldn't work. Would power up the HD when the PC-Card was inserted but then the system would lock up after emitting a cold boot BIOS POST beep.
The solution was to temporarily reinstall the old HD and use FDisk or similar program to remove the 'Active' flag. I used Ranish Partition Manager because it's more capable than M$ crippled equivalent.
Once the HD was back in its new home & without the active flag set, the system performs perfectly with the disk seen as a PC-Card ATA device.
Handy for backups.
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PS: Anyone want to buy my highly spec-ed XT clone? 10MHz 8088, full complement of RAM (640Kb), 32Mb HD, 720K FD& 360K FD, EGA screen. IBM DOS 4.0 or MS-DOS 6.22 included.
[ 27 July 2001: Message edited by: Tinstaafl ]