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Not detecting CD-ROM?

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Nightrain

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I recently formatted my computer, and I am booting up with nothing. So I throw in my Win XP CD and I get nothing. I go into the bios, and it doesn't list a cd-rom drive. So by now I'm like WTF. So I open the case, and all the connections are secure. So at this point I really am confused on what is going wrong.

Btw, it said something about NTLDR not being found. Any help would be appreciated, because I have run fresh out of ideas.
 
Maybe this will help

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Hrm, do you have the CD-ROM on the same controller (same cable) as the harddrive? If so, and they are both set to the same thing, they might be conflicting and the harddrive wins the race. I'd actually strongly recommend putting the CD-ROM on the secondary controller (meaning a second cable) if at all physically possible. When it comes to things like burning discs or just plain reading from a CD-ROM, generally it's better for the system to be able to do both at once instead of switching back and forth, which is what it has to do if they are both on the same.

Anyway, if you can't move it, check the jumpers on the back. Make sure they aren't both set to master or whatever. Typically you want your HD to be master and the CD-ROM to be slave, but, I'm not sure there's a huge difference really. Of course, if the CD-ROM is on the secondary controller, you should go ahead and make it master.

Now, if the problem isn't a conflict, I'd have to lean more towards an issue with the drive itself. I found with my last Toshiba DVD-ROM that it had troubles with my old power supply. Apparently it was one very power hungry drive. So I'm wondering if it could be something like that due to recent upgrades or something. If it's at all possible that this could be the issue, try unhooking absolutely every nonessential device (in fact, unhook your HD temporarily just for the sake of testing) and take a look to see if the BIOS then finds the drive. This issue is probably rare, but not impossible.


Oh, and NTLDR not found means that your system couldn't find the startup information where it's currently set to look on your harddrive. If you need to reinstall windows, that would kind of make sense though. Just reinstall windows and that message shouldn't show up again. If you don't need to reinstall windows, you need to reinstall the NT loader. It's easier than it sounds really, but you need a working Windows disc so that you can boot to the recovery console. Then you just run the command (it's listed in the help somewhere) that reinstalls the thing.
 
something is making contact... either the molex isnt holding on to the pins like it should, or the cable is out on one corner or something... most likely on the board.
 
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