Master Boot Records, multiple drives

[JimBob]

I've read through the posts on enlarging partitions, and think I have the solution down using ghost I backed it up and added it to an empty USB drive. I select this USB drive (in bios) to boot first. I still get the boot loader from the primary drive coming up (I've tried Darwin's, Acronis, & XP's). Under Darwin's, I can select the USB partition to boot from, then see brief activity lights on the USB drive, then the primary Darwin partion loads. Not the USB partition, even though I selected it.

 

I'm guessing that where the USB drive was empty--except for the new ghost image--that there is not a master boot record on the drive. So, it's going to the MBR of the primary HD (the next in line set in bios).

 

Can/how do I add a MBR to the USB drive? I'm hoping if I do this, I can boot the USB image and use iPartition to resize my primary partition.

 

System:

Intel D945GNTLKR MB

Intel Pentium D 930 proc.

Corsair 2 GB 667 MHz

WD 74 GB Raptor SATA

WD 320 GB Caviar SATA II

WD 120 GB Caviar IDE

Maxtor 80 GB IDE on USB

Pioneer DVR-110

On 10.4.4