Windows is not changing anything, the boot.ini is stating the disk and partition layout it knew when installed,
- unfortunately not quite that simple, but I will try the disconnect/reconnect on the SATA drive, thanks.
Here are bits of the old and new boot ini
Old (which used to work!)
timeout=8
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS
New (which NOW works)
timeout=8
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(3)partition(2)\WINDOWS
OS is on Disk 1 (2) according to Windows D M