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new hard drive problems...please help

dunnleed08

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got a new sata hard drive....western digital(just got it cause it was cheap....)....faster than my old drives..so i did a fresh install of windows on it(instead of using the utility to set it up as the new boot device without windows reinstall)...needed to be done anyways.....worked ok for an hour...after installing some new progs...upon boot it says "ntldr is missing press x to reboot...."...............wtf??


p.s....i did not erase all of the boot info on my old boot drive until after the fresh install....and i have the bios setting for "enhanced mode" for the ide settings....instead of combined sata only or auto
 
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chek your cable conctions it coluld be bad conection..:)
 
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sounds like its booting from your now blank ide drive make sure your sata drive is set first to boot and its not set to ahci unless you have installed the drivers :p
 

dunnleed08

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What is ahci.....? with an abit is10 mobo and tiny xp, will I need extra drivers for a SATA150 drive?
 
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western digital sucks, i gotta a 40, touched it and it like exploded, didnt even know it, put in a computer and didn't work, was working fine in another computer before this!!
 

dunnleed08

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Memory 2 gbs corsair value400mhz (cheap).
Video Card(s) sapphire x800gto (agp)...
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Case dunno....but it's huge and has a 250" size fan on the side
Audio Device(s) nuthin' but internal
Power Supply 550 watt antec
Software lots of illegal shit.....i mean software borrowed from friends....
ok....anyway

yeah...comp was booting old drive....bios settings were wrong....working fine...and much much faster..............anyways...which is the best config. when using a sata as main drive and ide as back-up drives.....combined enhanced ...etc etc
 
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