Unable to boot from a new HD

[Admin]

I installed a 120 GB Maxtor drive as a slave drive (Disk 1) on my Win
XP SP2 system and installed and activated the same system on it. There
are two partitions on it, one is a 24 GB Primary, Active partition the
other one is a logical drive.

I cannot boot from the Primary Active partition, when I choose Disk 1
as the Primary Boot Device, I get the message 'NTLDR is missing' and
system halts at the Bios level.

I can boot normally from the master drive (Disk 0) and choose from the
boot menu to log onto the system on slave drive (Disk 1), everything
works fine but when I try to directly boot from Disk 1, I get the
error "NTLDR is missing'.

When I check Disk 1 for errors in Windows, there are none, it shows
as healthy and active, Disk 0 shows as healthy and system.

Could someone help me understand and solve this problem.

Tia

Matt

 

[KG1]

If Disk 0 has your C: drive and was still connected when you installed XP
onto Disk 1, then Disk 0 may be where the XP boot files (NTLDR,
ntdetect.com, boot.ini) reside. You may need to edit boot.ini to add dual
booting, however, it should be setup when you installed XP on Disk 1.

KG1

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I installed a 120 GB Maxtor drive as a slave drive (Disk 1) on my Win
XP SP2 system and installed and activated the same system on it. There
are two partitions on it, one is a 24 GB Primary, Active partition the
other one is a logical drive.

I cannot boot from the Primary Active partition, when I choose Disk 1
as the Primary Boot Device, I get the message 'NTLDR is missing' and
system halts at the Bios level.

I can boot normally from the master drive (Disk 0) and choose from the
boot menu to log onto the system on slave drive (Disk 1), everything
works fine but when I try to directly boot from Disk 1, I get the
error "NTLDR is missing'.

When I check Disk 1 for errors in Windows, there are none, it shows
as healthy and active, Disk 0 shows as healthy and system.

Could someone help me understand and solve this problem.

When you setup Windows XP on the SLAVE drive - your PRIMARY (boot) partition
is still the 1st drive on the first channel of your controller. Therefore,
the boot sector is on this drive.

Put the 120GB drive in aas the ONLY drive - do your installtion. I suggest
a 40GB C:\ partition, if you are oing to split it like that.

 

[kurttrail]

I installed a 120 GB Maxtor drive as a slave drive (Disk 1) on my Win
XP SP2 system and installed and activated the same system on it. There
are two partitions on it, one is a 24 GB Primary, Active partition the
other one is a logical drive.

I cannot boot from the Primary Active partition, when I choose Disk 1
as the Primary Boot Device, I get the message 'NTLDR is missing' and
system halts at the Bios level.

I can boot normally from the master drive (Disk 0) and choose from the
boot menu to log onto the system on slave drive (Disk 1), everything
works fine but when I try to directly boot from Disk 1, I get the
error "NTLDR is missing'.

When I check Disk 1 for errors in Windows, there are none, it shows
as healthy and active, Disk 0 shows as healthy and system.

Could someone help me understand and solve this problem.

Tia

Matt

The boot files for both installations is located on Disk 0, so when it's
not the primary boot device, you get your NTLDR error. Understand?

http://www.google.com/search?source...GGLD,GGLD:2004-49,GGLD:en&q=fix+boot+files+XP

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[Admin]

When you setup Windows XP on the SLAVE drive - your PRIMARY (boot) partition
is still the 1st drive on the first channel of your controller. Therefore,
the boot sector is on this drive.

Put the 120GB drive in aas the ONLY drive - do your installtion. I suggest
a 40GB C:\ partition, if you are oing to split it like that.

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Thanks Shenan.

I wish to avoid having to do a complete reinstall of OS on the slave
drive but I do wish to make it independently bootable, when I choose
Disk 1 as the FIRST boot device in the Bios.

1- It appears I can copy the boot files to Disk 1 using Win XP
Recovery Console, can this be accomplished with Disk 1 connected as a
slave drive to the primary channel ?

2- Can TWO independently bootable HDs exist on the primary channel in
Win XP Pro as a Master and a slave without causing any problem?

Thanks

Matt