Harddrive problem and XP

MarkW7 · 27 Feb 2009 at 21:35

Installing XP on a second HDD

Hi all,

Can i get xp onto my second hdd, ive tried putting it in and booting from the disk but it says NTLRD is missing.
I was thinking maybe i can install xp when its a secondary drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Please ignore the below [problem solved]

I have two harddrives a 40gb and a 10gb IDE.

Both work ok. (did)

I had XP loaded on the 40gb for ages and was using it fine but today i got some parts and decided i want to installed xp on the 10gb so i can test other bits.

So i put it in my pc as a second drive - put the xp disk in and installed. seemed ok.

untill i turned my pc off and put my 40gb back in by itself.
Booted up and it said it cannot read my hardware configuration.

So i thought great!
Tried the 10gb and now that says something is missing press Ctrl + alt + del to restart.

But..

When i put the 40gb and 10gb in together it boots into the new install (10gb) and the 40gb is showing up and i can see all my files ect.

MarkW7 · 27 Feb 2009 at 22:26

thanks for the fast reply,
how do i do this?

thanks

MarkW7 · 27 Feb 2009 at 23:04

it will only boot with them both in and 40gb as master and 10gb as slave.

wont boot any other way -when it does boot it boots onto the 10gb.

How do i repair.

MarkW7 · 28 Feb 2009 at 11:07

Will try that now chris.

MarkW7 · 28 Feb 2009 at 15:03

Woo

Fixed the problem but now i have another one.

I can't get windows on the 10gb if its by itsself.
Just says; NTLDR is missing.

MarkW7 · 28 Feb 2009 at 17:00

I have formatted the 10gb, put it in by itsself and it just gives me, press any key from cd so i hit all buttons on my three keyboards and nothing, underneath this it says -

NTLDR is missing, press ctrl + alr + del to restart which also doesn't work.

I have a wireless keyboard attached, a usb and a p2p one.
still nothing.

thats why i was trying to install it as a second drive.

MarkW7 · 1 Mar 2009 at 13:29

tried a wired,

it prompts me to boot from cd when i press 'any key'. it just says NTLRD is missing.

MarkW7 · 1 Mar 2009 at 16:15

beeps and tells me no drive [0] found.
it then starts installing windows, then stops because no hdd was found.

MarkW7 · 1 Mar 2009 at 17:43

Bios-
Cd - 1st
Hdd - 2nd

10gb is master

I dont get it why change the 40gb to slave when it isnt connected.

MarkW7 · 1 Mar 2009 at 21:34

May of done now.

Put the 10gb as master by itsself.
Keep restarting and hitting keys when prompt come up finally it went into windows setup.