sata installed. windows boot up error

[bgbysleepy]

I had two pata(everything is fine) before i installed two sata which i make them for windows bootable drive. i installed 2 hitachi 250gb sata raid 0, and finished install the windows xp pro sp 2. Then i install video card driver, and it ask me to restart the computer. I restarted. when my pc boot up, it says ntndr** (something) is missing. I put windows cd in again. This time it boots up and works fine. I take the winxp out, restarted again. computer shows NTLDR is missing again. What is going on?


UPDATE:
I've finally done it. Here is the solution if anyone has this problem.
I disconnect the pata drives and redo everything from start. after winxp installed. i installed the nvidia controller and all of the supplied drivers for motherboard. I restarted without the winxp disc in. It finally works. I then do shutdown, plug in the pata drives, then power up. Works...I'm excited.

 

[dev0lution]

Sure you got your RAID drivers installed?

 

[bgbysleepy]

Originally posted by: dev0lution
Sure you got your RAID drivers installed?

yep. raid 0. it shows up two drives when it first boot.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

There is a Windows XP RAID driver which must be installed from floppy when the XP install program tells you to hit the old F6 key to install special storage drivers. This sort of thing would not be necessary if you use a slip-streamed XP install-disk with SP2, as I understand it. But this was always a problem with installing XP so that it recognized an SATA RAID array, allowing it to proceed with installation to that array and to make it bootable.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Whoops. Sorry. If you did install the drivers, we have a more complicated or more puzzling problem here.

(bump?)

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Wait a minute!! I think I've "been through this before."

Go into your BIOS, find the "Boot" menu, and check to make sure that the hard disk bootable device -- in whatever order you have set the system to check floppy, optical, HD, etc. -- shows the RAID controller and not one of the two hard disk model numbers. If it doesn't, I would suggest you set up the BIOS more carefully, and then reinstall XP from scratch with the F6 drivers and service pack 2 (unless this XP install disk includes SP2).

Also, before exiting the BIOS, check your motherboard documentation to see if there are some other settings under the IDE or drive configuration menus that contribute to the proper configuration of the RAID controller. Off the top of my head, I recall also something like this in addition to specifying the RAID controller as boot device.

You should also re-create the RAID array. In other words, get your BIOS configured properly and then just start from scratch with entering and configuring the RAID BIOS, rebooting to WIN XP CD install disk, SATA "F6" drivers, etc. etc. -- whole enchilada.

 

[bgbysleepy]

does anyone knows the answer for this. I'm getting crazy now. If you can, can you describe how were you set up your raid 0.
This is how i did it.
install two hitachi 250gb sata, one 250gb pata, one 160gb pata.
250gb and 160gb connect on the same cable on the motherboard.
two hitachi 250gb connects on the msi neo2 plantium motherboard.
I went to bios -->peripheral-->raid config--->enable sata1-4. I changed the boot priority to sata first, 250gb, 160gb.
then i press F10 to go to raid set up. I changed to raid0(striping) and bunk(64k)
I moved free space to raid. the raids are 1 0 1, and 1 1 1. I saved and restarted.
Screen boot up shows two sata. I put in the winxp pro sp2. Pressed f6 and specific 2 drivers for sata. then i continued with installation. I install it on the "unparitioned disk" (470000mb--my two hitachi hd). I choose format (not quickly). After winxp finish installed, i took the disc out and restart pc. after that i received "NTLDR IS MISSING PRESS CTRL+ALT+DEL TO RESTART". however if i put the winxp disc in the drive and restart. it will login into the windows. please help me. I do a search in google but i can't find the solutions.