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Dual boot win 2kpro and win 98 NTLDR missing when I try the drive on ATA 100 port

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Vteccruzn

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Well heres my problem

I have a KT7 raid and when i put the drive onto the ATA 100 slot the NTLDR comes up saying it is missing.

It has a win2k pro (C drive ) and win98 se on it. (E drive)
d is a blank NTFS drive.

Well My other computer pentium III has two partitions on it both NTFS and i just formatted on and installed win 2k pro, and the NTLDR is missing also.

I tried disenable system bios and bootup.
but this dang thing keeps haunting me. How Do i fix the NTLDR is missing problem??

thanks.
 
Wow, I had that problem of missing NTLDR... I hate that NTLDR message.... I've gotten it a few times, can't really figure out why... My only suggestion is for you to format your hard drive and start over... thats what I did a few times...

 

win2k does not know where your target boot drive is. you have to edit your boot.ini file. make sure that after you edit the boot.ini you make it READONLY again. in other words, you have to point where your win2k installation is located at (third ide controller, master, first partition, or wherever the winnt directory is at).
 
WOuldn't you have to change boot.ini to tell it where to look for boot info?

For example, lines like:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT

would have to have difference values when you move to another controller.

-SUO
 
Well it seems from the replies there must me more than one cause. I had that exact same error under the exact same circumstances... I got it only when I hooked my boot drive to my ATA-100, though everything worked fine off the mobo IDE controllers. Apparently it was a bug in the BIOS version with booting off of SCSI cards, and what fixed it finally was flashing to the latest BIOS. My mobo (KA7), though the same manufacturer, is ABIT older (harhar) so maybe your problem's not the same. But if you're comfortable with flashing your BIOS (sounds like you would be), and you're already on the latest release, and lastly if you're at your wits end over this (I know I was), you may even consider flashing to an earlier release. Of the 4 BIOS releases for the KA7, only the 3rd had this problem... so they obviously broke it while trying to fix other things.
 
Yeah it seems I have to try a few things to get it done. It is just really annoying and that boot disk option with recovery disk, does not work. No matter how many times I tried it, it doesn't fix it, so I am just reformatting everything and trying again.

man whatta problem. irritating I tell you.
 
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