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Seagate Drive Stealing me NTLDR?

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CTrainBEB

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I have a seagate drive that i thought was faulty, but today i figured i would try it again. Before it would work as a slave but have CRC and other such errors all the time. I put it in today as a slave and when i booted up my computer it gave me a dos screen that said that the NTLDR is missing. When i unplug the seagate it boots up fine. I tried running Seatools but it said something about a missing .exe file.

The seagate is a ST3120026A

here is the rest of my system:
AMD64 3000+
MSI Neo k-8 mobo
Radeon 9600XT
512 RAM
and a Western Digital HD. I don't know what model offhand.
 
the NT loader looks at the boot.ini in your O/S root directory during booting which no longer represents your system
You prob had an O/S on the seagate

You can format the seagate and start from scratch as a jumpered as slave drive, with the drive on the middle of an 80 conductor cable
and the original master on the end

Or, you can boot to an XP CD and say you want to repair, say no to first R recov console and go to second R Repair install

Or, you can boot to your safe mode recovery console and try typing the big three
FIXMBR
FIXBOOT
BOOTCFG

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But the use of these commands: BOOTCFG, FIXBOOT, & FIXMBR will be able to repair just about any boot sector problems from a Windows 2K/XP recovery console. I would suggest reading Microsoft's documentation on their proper use; as there is a very specific use order and method to the madness
 
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