NTLDR is missing

[Vanilla]

I know this means it can't find the boot drive but hear me out.

I have a PC with SCSI and SATA drives. My OS is on the SCSI drives, SATA is just data.

I plugged in the ATA drive just for DATA. As soon as I try and boot it says 'NTLDR is missing'. ONLY when the ATA drive is plugged in.

I have told it to boot to the SCSI in my BIOS but it still gives me this problem when I try and boot.

Any ideas on how to get my system to ignore the damn ATA drive until I boot?

 

[davethe11]

could try changing the boot order so the SATA drive has priority over the SCSI, I know it sounds stupid but maybe it will look at the SATA and find no boot files, then look at the SCSI and be happy.

 

[Silverwolf]

Make sure the one you want to boot from is the first one in the BIOS.