tiger_lilyanne Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 yes its connected Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 So, three hard drives. Drive 1 is SATA and has the operating system installed on it. [XP]Drive 2 & 3 are IDE drives in the machine but not connected at the moment because of the error message.When connected you have them both on the same IDE cable and the jumpers on the rear of the drives are set to master and slave or cable select.Master should be connected to the end of the cable and slave to the middle connector. This applies to whichever way you decide to set the jumpers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger_lilyanne Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 ic, lemme try that nowthanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 is the SATA drive connected via an IDE or an ATA connection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
expertec Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 You say you amended the boot order in the BIOS, what did you set it to.It should be set to boot from the S-ATA first, if it is set to boot from the IDE first you would get this message when the new drive is connected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger_lilyanne Posted October 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Hi!i tried installing another HDD, but when the bott strted, this message appeared:"NTLDR is missing" what could be wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger_lilyanne Posted October 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 what to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 HelloCan I suggest that you have a look here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=318728 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320397 http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djohn Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Received from tiger_lilyanne "i followed the instruction to connect the master to theend of the cable and slave to the middle connector already but when i started the boot again, this message appeared "NTLDR" is missing what should i do?"This is a list of possible causes tiger_lilyanne, I think we may have to work through them one at a time. :blink: If you can check as much as possible from your end then come back to the thread with what you have found to be correct we can look at the options left. dj.Computer is booting from a non-bootable source. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32. New hard disk drive being added. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Djohn, there is another thread started about NTLDR which I have replied to earlier today. Perhaps it could be amalgamated into this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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