Question about multiple drives in PC

[Matts0344]

Heres what I did. I had two partitions of my hard drive. One of XP and one of Ubuntu Linux. So I had Grub as my bootloader.

Then I wanted to add another SATA drive to back up data, so I did, but to format it I stuck in my XP install disc. Stupidly, I formatted and installed XP on it. I know, I shoulden't have done this. I lost Grub and Ubuntu. It lets me choose what XP OS to boot. But I don't care much about that.

All I want, is my old XP installation with my old files on it and another NTFS drive that I can just store files on for backups. Question is, from my old XP installation, is it safe to right click the new drive with XP on it and click format? Will this screw up my whole computer?
If it will, what should I do?

I'm thinking if I delete the partition with the boot loader I'm screwed?

 

[halw]

Check this link which instructs you on how to restore grub in your mbr.

Prior to proceeding with the above procedure, disconnect your second hard drive. After restoring grub reattach your second hd. Now your going to have to reformat it. My suggestion would be to use Partition Magic for this task and that you format it as Fat32. This way you will be able to use it for window$ and linux.