I just purchased a second hard drive, a 20 GB one, when i plug it in and boot i get "NTDLR missing, press Ctl+Alt+Dlt to restart". I have no idea whats wrong with it. The drive is second hand refurbished. Any one have a magical solution?

It sounds like it's trying to boot off this new drive;
make sure it's jumpered appropriately; or try sticking it
on the second IDE channel (cable), temporarily removing
any CD or other drives from that cable, for testing
purposes. Then when you start the system, it should boot
properly, and if there are any problems with this new
drive, you'll see them when you try to access it (it may
need partitioning/formatting).



>-----Original Message-----
>I just purchased a second hard drive, a 20 GB one, when i
plug it in and boot i get "NTDLR missing, press
Ctl+Alt+Dlt to restart". I have no idea whats wrong with
it. The drive is second hand refurbished. Any one have a
magical solution?
>
>.
>

Exaclty. The drive that has XP on it should be at the end of the IDE
Cable and set to master. The drive without XP should be in the middel
and set to Slave. Check the settings in the BIOS for the startup or
boot order/sequence and make sure the right hard disk is chosen.

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Nathan McNulty


steve wrote:
> It sounds like it's trying to boot off this new drive;
> make sure it's jumpered appropriately; or try sticking it
> on the second IDE channel (cable), temporarily removing
> any CD or other drives from that cable, for testing
> purposes. Then when you start the system, it should boot
> properly, and if there are any problems with this new
> drive, you'll see them when you try to access it (it may
> need partitioning/formatting).
>
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I just purchased a second hard drive, a 20 GB one, when i
>
> plug it in and boot i get "NTDLR missing, press
> Ctl+Alt+Dlt to restart". I have no idea whats wrong with
> it. The drive is second hand refurbished. Any one have a
> magical solution?
>
>>.
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