Started with Leopard, added OS9, lost a HDD?

Hello,
The Mac I recently bought came with Leopard clean installed on the 2nd HDD, but I found out that it had previously had OS9.2.2 on the 1st HDD. Since the installation of leopard was on a completely separate drive, I figured there was little harm to install 9.2 onto the master drive.
After days of reading, I decided to proceed making sure to choose the custom installation option and clean install to the bare master drive. Fearing no data loss, I felt confident in my choice...until I tried to boot back into leopard. During the installation of 9.2.1 I did notice that I had to initialize the drive that I wanted to install to because neither of the 20Gb HDD's showed up initially.
The installation went extremely well, but I can't even pull up the second drive in 9.2.1. Having a copy of 10.1 available, I tried to boot into that cd after repeated attempts(x-key during boot, resetting pram, etc) failed. The cd tried to load a few times, but it wouldn't on it's own. I then tried to use the disc utilities on the CD when booted into 9.2.1, but it too wanted me to initialize the 2nd drive.
I'm holding back on that because I'm assuming that entails a format of the drive and I know the actual data is intact, but can't figure out the whole how to boot back into it issue. Any ideas on how to get this back up and running while still being able to boot into both OS's?
This configuration started as a 400Mhz Sawtooth, but has been upgraded with a third party 1Ghz proc. As stated, it has dual 20Gb HDD's. I have original retail version copies of 9.0, 9.2.1, and 10.1. I'm also considering picking up 10.5.4 retail either way with a leaning towards 10.4.

Hi, Pyromethious -
It sounds like the second drive (the one with Leopard) was last formatted using OSX's Disk Utility, and the option to install OS 9 drivers was not selected.If that is the case, then the drive can not be mounted by any OS 9, including when booted to an OS 9 Install CD.
Article #TA20774 - Disk Is Available in Mac OS X But Not in Mac OS 9
That article suggests a possible non-destructive remedy by using Drive Setup while booted to an OS 9 Innstall CD; this will work only if the drive once had OS 9 drivers on it. Unfortunately, even then it rarely works.
The only other solution to be able to have that drive mount when booted to OS 9 is to then re-initialize the drive; this can be done using OS 0's Drive Setup or OSX's Disk Utility. If using the latter, be sure that the option to install OS 9 drivers has been selected. In either case, this is a destructive process - all data on the drive will be erased; be sure to first back up (usually with a cloning utility) all data you don't want to lose, using another drive or disk as the recipient.
Of course, you can also do nothing, and just plan on not having that drive available when booted to OS 9.
As far as getting the machine booted to OSX again, since OS 9 can not mount the other drive, its Startup Disk control panel can not 'see' it as a choice. Try one of the following -
• Restart or boot the machine, immediately press the Option key, keep it held down. This should bring up Startup Manager, within which you should be able to select the OSX volume for booting -
Article #HT1310 - Startup Manager: How to Select a Startup Volume
• Boot the machine to your Leopard installation disk, and use its Startup Disk (in System Preferences) to select OSX on the hard drive as the boot OS.
• Holding down the X key with the OSX 10.1 disk not in the drive should also cause it to boot to OSX on its hard drive. If you find it difficult to get the OSX 10.1 disk out of the drive, try holding down the mouse button immediately after restarting or booting - that's a hardware-based instruction for the Mac to eject all removable media. You can also try pressing the eject button on the front of the Mac after restarting or booting, when the drive has been energized but before the drive has spun up and tried to read the disk.
Not sure why the machine won't boot to the OSX 10.1 install disk, unless that specific version is not supported by the CPU upgrade.

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