Well I didn't think I would be back to this thread so quick, but I'm still having issues even w/o the other drive. I figured I'd play around with everything using an older drive that I have. It is a WD 2gig. Well I got it to boot up ok using the boot disk. I deleted the old partitions and logical drives, created a new partition and went to format. It wouldn't let me. Went back in and tried again, but the original partitions were still there. Tried to delete them with FDISK to start over but they were still there. Even tried running a debug script but the original partitions still remained. I'm at a complete loss here.
I was convinced that I had a bad drive before. I still am but now I am wondering if there is/was another problem as well.