Booting From Primary Slave Disc

You should have attempted a fix on the drive while it was still connected as the master drive. To make a drive that was previously a master boot device become a secondary device is possible, but a little complex. It involves "messing" around the boot sector(MBR) of the present master drive to point to the slave system partition.

I'll advice you to return the drive as the master as try a repair on it. Its easier than the whole "slave boot" thing you want to achieve.

Hmm, now that you've mentioned PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment), I think  I know where the issue might be.

You see, the PXE is an environment to boot computers using a network interface card independently of available data storage devices (like hard disks) or installed operating systems. A system that is PXE bootstrapped would tend to ignore the installed OS and seek a PXE boot server on the network, if connected. I guess you are not connected to a network? or at least, you have you network cable unpluggedand thus the error message you got. (As a check, the error message should be reading PXE-E61: Media test failure.check cable)

To get rid of this message,
- simply go into you BIOS under the boot device sequence/priority.
- You should be provided with these options(the names I have presented might not be exact as your PCs', but they     
  mean the same thingjust work out the match with yours):
   - Network Boot (or IBA 4.0.19 Slot 0208)
   - Hard Drive
   - Optical Drive(CD ROM)

- Whatever the sequence, just make sure you have the Hard drive come before the Network Boot option.
- To be on a safer side, you could just disable the network boot option.

PS: Also make sure you don't have both drives jumpered as masters. I can't remember the error message that pops up when this happens but I think it pops a PXE error. . .(not sure sha)

Hope this helps!

I did just that and it stopped giving me that error, but it still won't start, it gives me that boot windows normally, safe mode,,  and when I select boot normally, it loads some files and just hangs, and if I select safe mode or any other option it hangs.

@suave

Well, you could try a repair on the windows installation. Boot from in the installation CD and try a repair.

when I started normally it said cannot start 'because file not found windows root>\system 32\ntoskrnl.exe
and when I started with boot disk it said cannot start because file missing "File\i386\biosinfo.inf" "code 47872"