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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
Optiplex GX270 512/p4 2.6
HD crashed. I also have a EIDE 80g data drive. I bought a wd 160g sata to replace the maxtor 60g diamondmax eide that crashed. Ran the wd life drive tools to format and partition (137gig for windows 2000 - apparently there is a windows fix to recognize the whole drive once you are up and running.) Using windows 2000 bootdisk1 (because I am doing a clean install from the UPGRADE CD) - it stops when anylizing the Hard Drive configuration and gives me NTLDR is Missing. Though the bios setup recognizes the drive - the first message I get is "Primary Drive 1 not found". I believe the problem is here...with the bios. Help Please! already wasted 4 days googling for answers. PS FDisk recognizes the partition and says it is active, and Life Drive saw it and formatted and partitioned - so it isn't completely invisible. Also- Is there a problem having the IDE drive connected during this process - and how should i cable and jump it so that the SATA is primary? |
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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
"tenor20" wrote in message oups.com... Optiplex GX270 512/p4 2.6 HD crashed. I also have a EIDE 80g data drive. I bought a wd 160g sata to replace the maxtor 60g diamondmax eide that crashed. Ran the wd life drive tools to format and partition (137gig for windows 2000 - apparently there is a windows fix to recognize the whole drive once you are up and running.) Using windows 2000 bootdisk1 (because I am doing a clean install from the UPGRADE CD) - it stops when anylizing the Hard Drive configuration and gives me NTLDR is Missing. Though the bios setup recognizes the drive - the first message I get is "Primary Drive 1 not found". I believe the problem is here...with the bios. Help Please! already wasted 4 days googling for answers. PS FDisk recognizes the partition and says it is active, and Life Drive saw it and formatted and partitioned - so it isn't completely invisible. Also- Is there a problem having the IDE drive connected during this process - and how should i cable and jump it so that the SATA is primary? perhaps the BIOS is looking for a SATA driver before it finds the drive.......... I know nothing about 2000 but under XP with some MoBo BIOS's you have to have the SATA drivers available on a floppy drive to be installed during the installation of the OS. |
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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
If a motherboard requires XP drivers for SATA support, then drivers would be
needed for Windows 2000 as well. My bet is that the Optiplex GX270 BIOS is old enough that drivers are required. The newer motherboards with Intel 900-series chipsets do not need special SATA drivers, as a rule... Ben Myers On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:58:07 +0100, "Yes Baby" wrote: "tenor20" wrote in message roups.com... Optiplex GX270 512/p4 2.6 HD crashed. I also have a EIDE 80g data drive. I bought a wd 160g sata to replace the maxtor 60g diamondmax eide that crashed. Ran the wd life drive tools to format and partition (137gig for windows 2000 - apparently there is a windows fix to recognize the whole drive once you are up and running.) Using windows 2000 bootdisk1 (because I am doing a clean install from the UPGRADE CD) - it stops when anylizing the Hard Drive configuration and gives me NTLDR is Missing. Though the bios setup recognizes the drive - the first message I get is "Primary Drive 1 not found". I believe the problem is here...with the bios. Help Please! already wasted 4 days googling for answers. PS FDisk recognizes the partition and says it is active, and Life Drive saw it and formatted and partitioned - so it isn't completely invisible. Also- Is there a problem having the IDE drive connected during this process - and how should i cable and jump it so that the SATA is primary? perhaps the BIOS is looking for a SATA driver before it finds the drive.......... I know nothing about 2000 but under XP with some MoBo BIOS's you have to have the SATA drivers available on a floppy drive to be installed during the installation of the OS. |
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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
Thanks. I had this thought too - though when I checked the Dell
website for SATA drivers there wasn't anything listed. maybe I'll give it a more thorough look. |
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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
Hi!
Ran the wd life drive tools to format and partition (137gig for windows 2000 - apparently there is a windows fix to recognize the whole drive once you are up and running.) The fix is a registry value, and is only valid on SP3 and higher for Windows 2000. You can change the value yourself if need be. There is a Microsoft KB article on what to do if you're comfortable working on the Windows registry. Let Windows Setup do the partitioning and configuration for the hard drive. You might be surprised at the results. I installed the "Gold" (SP0) release of Windows 2000 Pro on a Dimension 8300 and its 160GB Western Digital hard drive. It let me partition and format all 160GB of it in one sitting. I've never known why and adding a 200GB drive later (after the SP4 installation) required that I throw the bit in the Windows registry to get anymore than 137GB of it to show up. Both drives crossed the limit, so why one worked and the other not...I can't say. Though the bios setup recognizes the drive - the first message I get is "Primary Drive 1 not found". I believe the problem is here...with the bios. Enter system setup and go into Drive Configuration. You'll see settings to enable and disable not only the SATA drives, but also the PATA (IDE) ones. Chances are good that one of the PATA device entries is set to "AUTO" and says "unknown device". Turn the offending port off in Setup, restart and go again. That should clear up the error. PS FDisk recognizes the partition and says it is active, and Life Drive saw it and formatted and partitioned Let Windows Setup do the partitioning and formatting. Data Lifeguard tools isn't perfect and may be doing something that Windows doesn't like. Also- Is there a problem having the IDE drive connected during this process - and how should i cable and jump it so that the SATA is primary? No, you shouldn't have any trouble with a connected IDE device. You can remove it if you want to, but that is up to you. SATA drives operate on a "one device per channel" principle. If you're sure the drive is plugged into the right SATA channel on the motherboard (on my Dim 8300 it is the topmost SATA connector) then you have done all you need to do. William |
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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
Hi!
Thanks. I had this thought too - though when I checked the Dell website for SATA drivers there wasn't anything listed. maybe I'll give it a more thorough look. I didn't need any SATA drivers for Windows 2000 Professional on my Dimension 8300. All the Intel *ATA controllers were recognized as such. Perhaps it isn't the most performing setup, but it works to this day. Most SATA controllers will emulate a conventional IDE controller and work fine. You can, at your own risk, download the Intel Chipset INF file update from Intel (or Dell may offer it for your system). This will let your Intel SATA controller be properly recognized. As far as I know, no better drivers are available for Win2000/XP unless you have a RAID capable SATA controller and are using it as such. Updating to the latest BIOS would not be a bad idea if you haven't already. Have the system on backup power and running from a cold start if you do. William |
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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
-----Original Message----- From: ] Posted At: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:20 AM Posted To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell Conversation: Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues? Subject: Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues? Thanks. I had this thought too - though when I checked the Dell website for SATA drivers there wasn't anything listed. maybe I'll give it a more thorough look. Might never me W2K drivers. |
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Replacing eIDE Boot drive with SATA - OS setup says "NTLDR is Missing" BIOS issues?
Thanks, William.This at least sent me down the right path. I
eventually got things running - not optimally - but running. I was using a win 2k Upgrade disk - so booting from the cd wasn't an option. I used a win98 boot disk and ran winnt from the i386 folder. I had tried this before - but the drive wasn't showing up as large enough for setup to run. I did 2 things - first I jumpered the sata drive to 150 - whether or not I needed to do this I don't know - because in the same operation I partitioned and formatted from the win98 fdisk/format in fat32. Then I let setup convert to NTFS - something I really didn't want to do. I am now showing a 149 GB capacity on a 160 gb drive. Good enough I guess. Anyway - I've ordered a XP OEM disk from ebay and I plan on upgrading as soon as it gets here. This will be my first OS that wasn't an Upgrade disc since win95 - so at this early stage I may just wipe the disk and start again if XP can format NTFS from the start. I appreciate your help. On Jul 27, 1:44 am, "William R. Walsh" m wrote: Hi! Thanks. I had this thought too - though when I checked the Dell website for SATA drivers there wasn't anything listed. maybe I'll give it a more thorough look. I didn't need any SATA drivers for Windows 2000 Professional on my Dimension 8300. All the Intel *ATA controllers were recognized as such. Perhaps it isn't the most performing setup, but it works to this day. Most SATA controllers will emulate a conventional IDE controller and work fine. You can, at your own risk, download the Intel Chipset INF file update from Intel (or Dell may offer it for your system). This will let your Intel SATA controller be properly recognized. As far as I know, no better drivers are available for Win2000/XP unless you have a RAID capable SATA controller and are using it as such. Updating to the latest BIOS would not be a bad idea if you haven't already. Have the system on backup power and running from a cold start if you do. William |
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Hi!
Thanks, William.This at least sent me down the right path. I eventually got things running - not optimally - but running. I was using a win 2k Upgrade disk - so booting from the cd wasn't an option. That's quite odd, as the upgrade discs are bootable. At least every Windows 2000 upgrade disc I ever came into contact with was startable. If you don't have an OS installed at that point, you'll be asked to provide a valid CD from a supported previous version of Windows. Good luck with your next step. I'm glad to hear you got it working, even if it wasn't really optimal. William |
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