C: Formatted in a Dual Boot System

[bobobeastie]

After recieving my new raptor I installed windows xp on a partition of half the drive then installed Vista 5308 on the other. Then after moving all of my vital documents I formatted the C: drive using partition magic. Computer restarted and stapped after listing IRQ's saying that it needs a bootable disk.

Two questions:
1. How do I get XP to boot?
2. How should I have gone about getting my windows install onto the raptor?

A couple of things I have tried which are probably wrong: I tried going into the recovery console on the XP install disk, no luck, bootcfg couldnt find any windows installs.

Thanks

 

[BadThad]

Check your boot order in the BIOS. Looks like it's not trying to boot from the SATA drive, also, do you have any IDE hard drives connected?

 

[bobobeastie]

I have changed the boot order already, I have also disabled the IDE channel that the C: drive was on.

Windows wont let me do a repair install without a copy of a previous version of windows, eventhough it is a full educational edition. If I have to I can re-install windows, I'll just have to find a disk.

here is the exact message I get when I try to boot:
after the irq table shows:
Boot from cd:
Boot from cd:
Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter:

 

[bobobeastie]

Problem "Solved", After about 4 installs of XP I finally got one to stick, It would not let me install onto the Raptor successfully untill it was the only partition.