corrupted hard drive, please help

[Guest]

i hooked up a Maxtor 160GB hard drive to my HP Pavilion 762n computer, and
installed xp pro on it. the hard drive that came in the computer is 80gb. so
heres what i did, basically i sacrificed my dvd-rom drive to hook up the
maxtor 160gb hard drive because I used up the 80gb one....

both hard drives have xp pro installed, and everything was going fine, for
weeks, i even filled up 100 gigs of my 160 gig hard drive already. now one
morning i turn on my computer and the computer usually boots from the drive E
(the 160gb one), but it got the blue screen error thingy. so i ran CHKDSK on
drive E and it found a bunch of corrupted errors etc etc, and fixed it, then
rebooted. now when i boot from Drive E (160gb one), i get the normal windows
xp pro loading screen for about 5 seconds, then it switches to a different
blue screen error, but only for a split second before the computer restarts
itself back into the main logo, then back to the OS choices menu, and if i
boot from drive E again it'll be the same process.

I even ran the repair on Drive E using my Windows XP Pro cd, and it
re-installed the xp pro files without deleting my stuff. yet the same problem
persists. I cant boot from my 160gb HD, but i can boot from my 80gb one and
access the 160gb one from My Computer. I can access the files and watch my
videos (anime ) fine, but i want to be able to boot from that drive.

If anyone knows how to fix the drive without me having to lose 100gb of my
stuff that i downloaded, please tell me so, preferably in email...
(e-mail address removed)...thanks a bunch.

 

[peter]

I fail to understand why you had to disconnect the DVD to install a 2nd HD.You
should have been able to install on the same Cable and EIDE slot as the first HD
and do this without having to run XP on 2 different drives.By installing in this
manner the new drive would have been a slave with full 160 Gb capacity.You can
still do this and manually delete the XP directory and associated files under
"documents&settings.At this point it might require a Repair installation of XP
onto your original drive to reconfigure the Master Boot Record which is on the
"C" drive(the old one?)Also be sure to set the little jumper on the back of the
new drive to slave when you do this.
Of course if you have your heart set on booting from the new drive hook is up as
the master and the old as the slave then do a repair onto the new.
Unless you are dual booting you dont need 2 OS
peter