Help! freind has formated drive and now it insist on being primary boot??

[Jimbo]

A friend of mine has formated a disk using some sort of file system for the nintendo Wii.. it must have changed his IDE drive to C: WBFS (thats the drive letter and the file system.

The problem is.. now it does not matter, if the OS is on another hard drive,be it sata or IDE... it allways trys to boot from this drive. it gives it NTLDR is missing?? there is NO operating system on there.. it should boot from his E: drive and not this C: drive..... does this make sense??

Help??

 

[Jimbo]

Lol, no you dont get me. The OS was and had the boot files E: (SATA).... but since he did something with the drive CIDE) it allways goes and trys to boot from that drive.

I have wrote back the NTLDR files and to E: and no joy. There is no OS on C: or Boot files. I have installed windows again on E: it boots fine when the C: drive is dissconected.. but trys to boot from E: when its connected even though it has no OS or boot files.. and gives NTLDR is missing.. it was formated using this WBFS file system... and no manner of drive config or bios setting helps.

I know what NTLDR does.

 

[Jimbo]

No the boot loader is on E: but if we plug in C: we cant boot. If it was on C: couldnt we see it in dos and delete it??

How do you do it again? lol.

Very confusing!!

 

[Jimbo]

Yeah but this is the whole problem.. we cannot put this drive in another pc and try to boot.. because it trys to boot from this drive! and just throws the error message NTLDR is missing.

We are not trying to boot from it, just boot from another drive and then get access to it. He has files on there he does not want to lose is the thing.

Its weird.. even if you select another drive with a working copy of the OS on.. this case being XP, it looks to boot from this buggered drive first.. it must do cos it gives that error message.

We can access it through the recovery console, via dos... is there a way to set is as inactive in there, or can we use partition magic or a util from Maxtor?

 

[Jimbo]

This is just what my mate said, we are gonna try it. Its an old IDE drive and i never knew he had a caddy, it sounds like a good shout.