A friend suggested that maybe the system wasn't looking at the HD with
partition C: and suggested I disconnect the other hard drive. Presto! It
booted and everything was good except I didn't have the second drive active.

But, when poking around the hard drive data, I noticed that the boot drive
is showing up as drive(1) and the secondary drive as drive (0). I'm sure that
is why it was trying to boot from the second hard drive. So, now the question
is, is it possible to reassign the drives to the correct physical addresses
without screwing up the entire system?