Missing ntldr with SATA drive

[JasonS55]

I reinstalled WindowsXP tonight and now when I plug my IDE drives in, I get an error saying that ntldr is missing. I went into windows repair console and it shows my sata drive as drive E and one of the IDE drives as C. Just wondering how i would go about fixing this?
Thanks

 

[Abzstrak]

your boot order is outta wack... you need to set your bios to boot to the SATA controller first

 

[JasonS55]

I had it set to boot CDROM first, then SATA. I changed it to boot SATA first and now it works....weird but Thanks

 

[KF]

What was happening is that the boot process got as far as the boot loader on the boot sector (of some HD.) Then the HD that the boot loader considered the first HD did not have "ntldr" on it. (ntldr = NT loader, the file that will next be needed to load XP.) Evidently the HDs on the controller with the CDROM come first, as far as the boot loader is concerned, when you have the BIOS set to boot the CD first. This problem occurs when you have more than one HD controller.