Dual drive help needed

I recently had some upgrades to my old system which included XP home on C: drive.
I was previously running with a back up drive "D" and I was able to choose between either "C" or "D" when booting up. Now I don't seem to have that option it just boots up the main drive "C"

If I remember correctly the "C" & "D" drive had XP pro on it prior to work I had done. How do I check what OS is running the back up drive since I can't get it to boot up

 

New mother board, more memory, sound card upgrade.

I found this link earlier but it's over my head on how to do the stuff described

Dual boot link

 

Hi 550guy. The boot order (and the choices you see when you start up) are controlled by a small, hidden text file located in c:\ and named boot.ini. It would help to know what is in there now.

Click on start, on run, key in notepad c:\boot.ini and OK then when the file opens in notepad, click on edit~select all and copy the contents then paste it to a reply here.

Note that with a new motherboard, you may wind up needing to do a repair of the operating system loads. If so, we can walk you through that process.

 

Ok here's what what

[Boot Loader]
Timeout=5
Default=C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT
[Operating Systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS= "Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
C:\CMDCONS\BOOTSECT.DAT= "Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" /cmdcons

 

that's xp home and the recovery console ... u SURE u had something else here?

u should also define u'r system specs exactly as it's unknown if u've got two physical drives or just two partitions. u'd need to define what u have and what u expect. if u DID have xp pro (on C&D?) ... where was xp home?

basically i'm confused as to what u had and what u've got now.

 

Guess A little better info would help.
I've got 2 seperate physical drives, the "C" drive is my main(default) drive and I use the "D" drive for gaming and storage. On start up I used to have the option of booting the "D" drive but I've since lost that option after having XP home loaded onto my default(C) drive.
I can still access the "D" drive when I'm working on the default drive.
I was running XP pro before on both drives(A friend loaded it from his XP pro copy) But when I got the motherboard and memory upgrades the comp store hooked me up with XP home.

I'm not sure what else to tell you all as I'm pretty green when it comes to this

 

When you replace a motherboard in XP you need to do a repair install
Moving XP to a new motherboard

Now since you had XP pro, and now have XP home, it would appear that they did not do a repair install to rebuild your HAL (hardware abstraction layer) but instead wiped your drive and did a clean install of XP home.

I think you have to chock this up to experience, this is one reason to always have your data backed up externally.
Additionally , it brings to light that you should ask when you bring in a PC what they will do and ask for confirmation before they do any additional steps. Confirm that you will be contacted and asked for permission prior to any actions which could compromise your data.