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Getting windows working on SATA drive?

Viper87227

Viper87227

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I just got an NF7-S, and im using the SATA adapter on my 120GB drive that had an OS on it. I formatted and reinstalled, and had alot of stuff backed up on my 2nd and 3rd drives. I installed the drives, and windows had not problems installing. Got in windows fine, but upon rebooting, i got an NTLDR error. I have gotten them before and I know it means windows cant find a certail file, and the fix is a reinstall. So, thats hwat I was gunna do, i put my windows disk back in, and instead of windows installing, it brough me to the OS choices menu. It showed two installations of XP, but I know I only have one. Clicking the 1st brings my computer up like normal. I havnt tried the second choice. Normally I woudlny care, but having to put hte windows disk in every time I reboot to skip the NTLDR error is a bitch. My thoery is that the puter thinks ther eis a windows install on one of that IDE drives, and cant find the winNT files, hence the error. But how do I fix it so I get no error and can just boot off my SATA drive? Would formatting the others work? I was going to just do that, but didnt want to loose all my backup if that wasnt the solution.
 
That sounds feasable to me. You can see where it thinks the second copy of Windows is by going to 'Properties' in My Computer -> Advanced Tab -> Settings Button under "Startup and Recovery" -> Edit Button for "Edit Manually"

That will show you the boot.ini file, as well as the two copies of Windows and their locations. You can remove the one you don't want to use from the list, as long as you make sure the one you want is set as the default option.

I just had to do this 2 days ago since my brother's girlfriend re-installed Win XP in an attempt to get rid of spyware. Sigh... 75 spywares found in all. It took Spybot S&D, Ad Aware, HiJackThis and another program to find them all...
 
Ya I've had this problem.

Ok heres whats going on. For some reason when windows installs onto SATA drives it sets the system drive as the IDE drive. You can boot into windows once but then it gets FUBAR'd. So my workaround was unplugging the power from the IDE drive, so it's not recognized by the system, then reformatting and reinstalling windows on the SATA drives. After everythings all booted up and what not, go ahead and shut down, connect your ide drive back up and turn your comp on. You'll probly have to import the drive's partition thru drive management, but thats not hard. Hopefully this helps you, GL.
 
I actually fixed the problem quite easliy. Since i was just using a SATA adapter, I put the drive back on IDE, installed windows, and put it back on sata again. Problem sovled
 
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