Windows Vista Restoring Vista

Well I just discovered that my XP is not booting neither, meaning Rocksters thought appears to be correct.
Somehow the Promise drivers or the card itself are not functioning.
BurrWalnut just to bring you quickly up to date what I am talking about on this PC the Motherboard has no SATA connectors so I installed a PCI SATA controller and I have 2 SATA drives in separate caddies one has XP installed and the other the Vista and both drives are C drives sharing one fixed IDE drive for Documents.
When I push the XP caddy in and start up I get the message no hard drive can be found, meaning either the Promise drivers or the controller is not working in my opinion.
hawk22

 

I have deleted the contents of this post as the thread had moved to page two and my reply was to the last entry on page 1.

 

BurrWalnut:

This is for background information as I don't think Hawk has explained his setup thoroughly. Pull up a Chipendale, have a seat and relax for a minute.

Hawk is actually running two totally independent systems. He is using removable drive caddies to house his operating system drives and they are used on a mutually exclusive basis. He can use one drive with XP Pro or shut down his machine, remove that drive and slide in the caddie with a Vista drive and boot into Vista. These are both SATA drives being run from a Promise add-in card. He also has a common IDE drive which is being used for storage, including documents but I don't believe he has mapped or moved his actual My Documents folder(s) over to this drive.

I just thought a little more background might be helpful.

 

Thank you Rockster, you explained that how it should be done. Yes I did move the Documents from both Vista and XP to the fixed IDE drive.
cheers
hawk22