Trouble with HDD

[Chris Bubner]

Hi,
I upgraded my MB the other day and now i am having
trouble loading my second hard drive. The error I get is
after the DMI pool verified and it says NTDLR not found
press Ctrl-Alt-Dl to resart. When I disconect the HDD the
it XP loads fine. The drive Is a Seagate Barracuda 40GB.
Both drives were fine before the upgrade and it they are
both on NTFS system. When I reformatted the Seagate dive
and loaded it with Fat32 the system post then read "non
system disk" hit enter to continue, the problem with this
is it allows does it on start up.
Any suggestions would be great Thanks
Chris

 

[Carl G]

Sounds like you are trying to boot to the wrong hard drive.
Check the jumper setting on drives.
Check in your bios if you have a priority setting for hard drives.
hope this helps.

 

[Guest]

Your Mobo should have 2 IDE interfaces.
For optimum performance set up hard drives / optical drives as follows:

Some label the 1st IDE as Primary, 0 or 1 and 2nd IDE as secondary, IDE1 or
2. Just check which corresponds to your Mobo and configure hardware.

Primary IDE Interface - 1st Hard Drive Jumpered as Master [operating system
drive] + 2nd [one used least or non-writing drive if you have 2] Optical
Drive jumpered as Slave. The HDD should be positioned at the end of the
cable, the Optical in the middle.

Secondary IDE Interface - 2nd Hard Drive Jumpered as Master [non-operating
system drive] + 1st [one used most or writing drive if you have 2] Optical
Drive jumpered as Slave. Again the HDD should be positioned at the end of
the cable, the Optical in the middle.

The hard drives will show up as C and D [unless partitioned]. The Opticals
as E and F respectively according to the configuration above.

 

[gijoe506]

You got to do a rebuild you boot.ini file
Your pc is lost, doesnt know what to boot, thats why you get the ntdlr error
to fix, boot up with a windows xp cd, any will work, got to recovery
console, you get that by hitting R
most admin passwords are blank, it will ask you for it

then type in bootcfg /list
this will tell you if there are anything for your pc to boot
if you get none, just type in bootcfg /rebuild
takes a min or two, if i had 2 or three drives with windows loaded, i would
just put windows c, or d, or e, once windows was working again, i would then
edit the boot.ini file then, getting rid of the ones that didnt work,
anyway, hope this works


Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
fastdetect

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home
Edition" /fastdetect

Your Mobo should have 2 IDE interfaces.
For optimum performance set up hard drives / optical drives as follows:

Some label the 1st IDE as Primary, 0 or 1 and 2nd IDE as secondary, IDE1 or
2. Just check which corresponds to your Mobo and configure hardware.

Primary IDE Interface - 1st Hard Drive Jumpered as Master [operating system
drive] + 2nd [one used least or non-writing drive if you have 2] Optical
Drive jumpered as Slave. The HDD should be positioned at the end of the
cable, the Optical in the middle.

Secondary IDE Interface - 2nd Hard Drive Jumpered as Master [non-operating
system drive] + 1st [one used most or writing drive if you have 2] Optical
Drive jumpered as Slave. Again the HDD should be positioned at the end of
the cable, the Optical in the middle.

The hard drives will show up as C and D [unless partitioned]. The Opticals
as E and F respectively according to the configuration above.

Sounds like you are trying to boot to the wrong hard drive.
Check the jumper setting on drives.
Check in your bios if you have a priority setting for hard drives.
hope this helps.