You can also try this if that doesn't work
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I had exactly the same problem when I created an additional partition (to install another OS for dual booting) on a XP machine. Although installing a secondary harddrive is different I think they are related and cause the same problem. I fixed my problem by installing XOSL boot manager. It has options to hide partitions. Which is exactly what I had to do to be able to boot into XP again. You can try the same as a last resort. - get XOSL here : www.xosl.org and extract to floppy - boot from floppy - install XOSL - reboot and XOSL startup screen appears - go into setup and click add to add a new boot item - select the partition where XP is located - then Ok - then click Hiding on the setup screen and hide all other partitions. - then click Save and Close - Then click Boot in the main screen to boot into XP After that you hopefully boot into XP. It won't see the secondaty drive however. So you have to reboot and go into XOSL setup again to remove the hiding of partitions. Then boot XP. If it has detected your second drive you can uninstall XOSL if you find it unuseful.
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