Dual boot enviorment on primary IDE channel Diamond Plus tried everything!!

Whats up everybody? For some reason I am unable to achieve a dual boot enviorment on my primary IDE channel! I have tried numerous things and for the life of me I cant get it to work! I just bout a new Hitachi 250 gb ultra ata 133 drive and it works great I formatted it by itself with no other drives present and ony one of my optical drives hooked up. Runs great but as soon as I hook up my Hitachi 160 gb ata100 drive and try to boot from  the 160 gb drive I get a message that states windows cannot complete youre request the boot ini file is missing or corrupt! So I reformatted that drive with the same proceedure with complete success loaded all of my drivers and updates made sure everthing was fine double checked my bios settings powered down and hooked everything back up the new 250 gb Hitachi is faster so it is allocated as the master on the cable  in relation with jumper settings and the 160 gb ATA100 Hitachi Drive is of course set on the slave hook up with cable and jumpers. What gives????  I have 2 western Digital Sata 2 drives in raid 0  and I can get them to boot in a multiboot enviorment!!!!!    Is anyone else haveing this kind of problem with IDE drives? Is this a protocol developed by mother board manurefacturers too phase out PATA DRIVES?  Please if anyone else is have this problem respond to this post.
                                                                       Brother Esau

Hi, Bas
I have tried doing that and I get the same thing when I originally got the new Hitachi drive I put that on master and put the other one on slave already formatted does shiffting the c:\ drive to slave make that kind of impact?  Also why is the formatte process for sata successful and the IDE is not? Its recommended on these forums that every time you ad a os you should remove all drives that has windows already installed ,does that apply only to sata drives?

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