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Booting problem

  • 06-10-2006 11:21pm
    #1
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭


    Hi, my machine is going to die anyday i can hear the HD grinding away so i cloned it a few days back onto a spare SATA drive i had. now the orig windows install is on an IDE drive. and i have the SATA drive operating via a controller card i installed.
    SATA works fine cause i have another SATA drive i use for storage.
    However when i unplug the orig ide drive and plug in the windows SATA disk nothng happens. Once i got windows to boot from it then it said restart to finsish intall of new hardware, so i did and now i get a NTLDR missing error.
    However in my BIOS i dont see a Boot from SATA option. Its a Pheonix Award BIOS V6.00 and i cant find a new bios flash to upgrade it.

    Anyone got any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    I'm going to guess that when you cloned the hard drives, you didn't edit boot.ini?


  • #3
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    nope, just ghosted it


  • #4
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Well, I'm gonna guess that your problem. Stick in the sata drive, boot to the recovery console on the CD, type fixboot and fixmbr and you should be sorted.


  • #5
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    how do i get to this recovery console? I rarely use Ghost fully, only for quick jobs so i know nowt about it really


  • #6
    bombidol
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭bombidol


    Nevermind. have it sorted.


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  • #7
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    For future reference for anyone who comes across this thread, stick in the XP cd, boot to it then press R when it prompts you to.


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