happyspader
Junior Member
Hi all,
I'm experiencing difficulties with booting from a SATA drive and was wondering if anyone could shed some light. My situation is as follows:
I installed Windows XP Pro successfully on my new SATA drive. However, I currently also have an "old" Windows XP installation on C: (old PATA HDD). Following the new installation, I was given the option of either booting in the old Windows or the new Windows (dual boot option). My new Windows installation is on the E: partition on my SATA drive.
Now, I've decided to get rid of my old windows so I used Acronis Partition Expert to format C:. Acronis rebooted my comp and successfully formatted by C:, which means I'm now left with E: (my new Windows XP installation). After formatting C:, my system rebooted and I come across a boot error of some sort: "NTLDR is missing"
I'm assuming my motherboard is looking for a bootable OS from the primary master HDD (on which my old Windows was installed). I've already set my boot HDD as the SATA drive, but to no avail; I'm still getting the NTLDR error.
My motherboard is Gigabyte 8IPE1000Pro2, with the F7 BIOS version. It seems that upon boot, my motherboard is not booting off the SATA drive even though I've set the SATA drive as the first boot HDD. The funny thing is, I wasn't able to set SCSI (?) as first boot device, even though an explanation of that option was displayed to the right of the screen. SCSI doesn't even appear in the bootable devices list.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd highly appreciate it.
Thanks.
I'm experiencing difficulties with booting from a SATA drive and was wondering if anyone could shed some light. My situation is as follows:
I installed Windows XP Pro successfully on my new SATA drive. However, I currently also have an "old" Windows XP installation on C: (old PATA HDD). Following the new installation, I was given the option of either booting in the old Windows or the new Windows (dual boot option). My new Windows installation is on the E: partition on my SATA drive.
Now, I've decided to get rid of my old windows so I used Acronis Partition Expert to format C:. Acronis rebooted my comp and successfully formatted by C:, which means I'm now left with E: (my new Windows XP installation). After formatting C:, my system rebooted and I come across a boot error of some sort: "NTLDR is missing"
I'm assuming my motherboard is looking for a bootable OS from the primary master HDD (on which my old Windows was installed). I've already set my boot HDD as the SATA drive, but to no avail; I'm still getting the NTLDR error.
My motherboard is Gigabyte 8IPE1000Pro2, with the F7 BIOS version. It seems that upon boot, my motherboard is not booting off the SATA drive even though I've set the SATA drive as the first boot HDD. The funny thing is, I wasn't able to set SCSI (?) as first boot device, even though an explanation of that option was displayed to the right of the screen. SCSI doesn't even appear in the bootable devices list.
If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd highly appreciate it.
Thanks.
