Can't Run Partition Commander (boot drive = SATA D:)

Ucla74

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I want to repartition a couple of my hard drives. I have a 120GB IDE drive as C: and 2 80GB HDs on SATA 1 & 2. The SATA 1 drive is D: (at least XP thinks it is) and contains the OS.

The computer boots normally, although boot.ini pops up 2 choices; I have the default set to the second and everything seems fine.

However, Partition Commander installs to C: (no option here), and upon bootup, it tells me syscmndr.bin (not sure of the suffix) is missing. Well, syscmndr.xxx is for the optional boot selector program, which I didn't install.

At anyrate--the file is on the drive, in the \PC (Partition Commander) folder. Researching the error seems to indicate an MBR problem, but I'm reluctant to mess with the MBR since the machine boots fine when PC isn't installed.

Any ideas out there? Is there something screwy in my boot.ini?