NTDLR is missing.

[Captain Beer]

So here's the story.

I have an 80GB SATA and a 80GB IDE Drive.

I have Windows on the SATA and keep music and movies on the other one.

But now when the IDE drive is connected then I get a message NTDLR is missing. So I unplugged the drive and Windows boots perfectly. And in the BIOS it has the IDE drive as a boot priority and it won't let me change this.

What the hell am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

 

[Person]

Change your boot disk order in your bios.

 

[Captain Beer]

Thanks person, but it won't let me. All the charecters are corrupted too.

 

[Person]

Thanks person, but it won't let me. All the charecters are corrupted too.

what do you mean the chareters are corrupted?

 

[Highflyer_GP]

i think you may need to install the SATA drivers from the cd that came with the mobo. if its a gigabyte mobo, should be in the folder bootdrv

 

[killadoob]

person is right go into the bios and set the change the boot disk order

i dunno about this char currupted or whatever should affect the bios

 

[zefram]

sounds like the bios is trying to boot of the ide anyways. if changing the boot to sata doesn't help maybe its time for a bios update? you could always just blame windows

you could try get one of those ide - usb external hd thingies. then at least you can get to your data.

or maybe try to boot of a linux live cd, and try to mount both the sata and the ide. it should work if you don't have any weird raid drivers.

just thought of something else: maybe it could help if you make the ide drive's partitions non-active. this should stop it from trying to boot of it. easiest way to do this is with partition magic i think. (wich you could run of a boot cd or floppy).

 

[R4tt3xx]

Some Gigabyte boards do have problems with booting up SATAs. A BIOS update will fix it.

 

[Moederloos]

Have you checked the jumpers on the drive?

 

[Perdition]

This is purely a drive order issue and strange there is absolutely no option in the BIOS to change this. By default most motherboards are set to boot IDE devices before SATA and this is exactly what is happening with your setup.

The corrupted chars indicates one of 3 things

a) The IDE cable is faulty - try a different cable if you have one.
b) The drive is faulty - easy to test by connecting the drive to another machine.
c) The BIOS is having trouble recognising the drive - unlikely but update your BIOS to the latest version anyway.