The Case of the Mysterious Drive Letter

[Nooyawkah]

A friend of mine asked: "I used to have two harddrives in my system. Each time I booted up, just before the Welcome screen, Windows XP added an extra screen that made me choose which drive I wanted to use. I was forced to use the arrow to toggle up or down to make a selection. No matter how I changed the bios, I still had to do it. I knew it wasn't right but I endured it for 3 months. Now that I no longer want the second drive and have removed it, guess what? I still get asked that question. If I choose correctly all is well. If I pick the drive that is removed from the system, I get a message saying that Window does not have the proper files and On My Compter, the phanton second harddrive does not appear. What can I do to bypass the need to choose and get rid of that screen?
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[jabarnutcase]

Hi Nooyawkah-
Strange. Since the extra hard drive was removed, is the remaining HDD set to "Master"? (Assuming they were on the same IDE Channel).
And then, did he run through the "Auto detect" in bios, save changes and exit?
Secondly, did he go to device manager and see if the "Phantom drive" is still there under "disk drives" (Then "uninstalling" it if it is) Making sure of course that the phantom drive is selected for "Uninstall" :)
Only thoughts I have right off. Anyone else?