Disabling a 2nd bootable hard drive in a nForce 2 Motherboard

[videobruce]

Details;
nForce2 motherboard (Abit NF7-S V2),
XP Pro w/ sp3 (but I doubt it matters),
IDE hard drives on the same bus,
Non RAID setup,
SATA ports not used,2nd IDE channel has a Optical drive on it.

There is the entry in the Bios to set any of the four IDE devices to "None", but doing so has no affect upon the next boot in the Bios. The drives still show up in the boot screen, so I doubt it's a Windows issue.

I have two bootable drives (1st partition each), and want to isolate one or the other (only on occasion) for different reasons, but I would rather not go through the hassle of opening up the case and pulling th cable(s).

Anyone else have this issue?

 

[Dahak]

it should just boot from whatever one is set to the default. and then you could press the boot menu key on the motherboard (ex most asus it is f8) to select the 2nd drive. Thats how i pretty much always ran my dual boots

 

[videobruce]

it should just boot from whatever one is set to the default.

Boot order is not the problem. Hiding/disabling the drive is. The Bios is ignoring the "None" state setting of that drive that was set in the Bios. It sees the drive no matter what. I'm assuming it's some lame flaw in the Bios firmware (possible because of age) and hoped someone had a workaround.