SATA HDD problem

[Daniel Webb]

I recently hibernated my pc but now cannot restart the
pc, aparently it cannot find the NTLDR. So I copyed it
accross from another HDD (in the same pc both with XP
home installed) to se if that would solve the problem.
BUt it does not seem to have done anything except tell
the system it isn't a system disc. I've looked through
the KB for problems simular to this but they all involve
getting into the OS that has the problem (which I can't
do)

The HDDs in the system are
2 x 200gb (one has XP home on it)
1 x 80gb (this one has a fresh install of XP home on it)
1 x 8gb


Just when I get things working a bit faster this goes and
happens, typical!


Thanks for the help,


Dan

 

[Guest]

thanks for the reply so soon, I've executed the commands
and copyed the files accross from the CD-ROM to the
correct HDD, but it is not booting still. When I tried
to run partitiob magic on the other HDD it said the
system had just come out of hibernation and please
restart (which that HDD hadn't).

 

[Guest]

just to add the error is now;
disc boot failure please inster system disc ~

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Have you checked to make sure there is not disk in the floppy drive? If
there is no disk in the floppy drive, the next step with a boot failure
notice such as this is to check the hard drive manufacturer's website for
their diagnostic tools, download them, making note of the instructions at
their website and then run the diagnostic to be sure the disk is not
failing.

 

[Dan Webb]

The disc is fine have neer had problems with it untill I
put it into Hibernation, is there a way of fooling it
into starting up normally with that disc? Maybe it willl
reckognise it after that?


thanks for the reply,

Dan

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

If you've not run a diagnostic on the disk, there's no way to know for sure
the disk is fine. First order of business with a boot disk failure notice
is to check the disk. No, there is no way of fooling it in to starting up
normally, you must find the source of the issue. If the disk diagnostic
turns up nothing, then it is likely the setup is corrupt as the system is
not reading the disk.