So I'm reformatting...

[[FX]Roman]

Alright, quick lowdowm. I've got a DFI LANParty Ultra, two SATA drives and one new formatted ATA drive.

I pop in the new (old rather) drive, goto my BIOS and set it to boot from CD only. I then pop in my CD, Computer POSTS, asks to boot from CD, I hit the "any key" (lol), and thjen it says the NTLDR is missing!

How could this be, I thought... Maybe the disk of Windows XP I ... bought had it missing? I tried my ... Friends copy of Windows XP... Same thing!

I checked both CD's and they actually both had NTLDRs on them... I'm wondering now if it could lie on my DVD Drive? I've never formatted with this and I've always used a CDROM in the past.

Does anyone else have any input? Does anyone else need any more info? I'm using a BenQ DQ60.

Thanks!

 

[TheMostWantedPolishTwin]

do you have your HD and the optical drive on separate ATA channels? anyways.. it might be that your optical drive is somehow defective.. it also might be some sort of incompatibility if you're running both devices on the same channel.. did you try installing OS on your SATA drive..?

 

[[FX]Roman]

That is what I'm thinking... Either a channel issue, or a drive issue, because I can install the OS on the SATA drives without a problem.

I might just pop in my old CDROM and do it that way if all else fails... It's rather annoying, though. If that fails... I'll just put a gun in my mouth or something...

 

[defakto]

Check boot order in bios, sounds like it's trying to boot from the formatted ata harddrive first.

 

[[FX]Roman]

Oh, I've made sure of that

When I get home I'm going to give the CDROM a try, not the DVD. As for the boot order, I even tried making all options the optical drive, and setting "try other devices" to off.